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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!

Thomas Hardy

Eye, Rivers, Numbers

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Done because we are too many.

Thomas Hardy

Done

Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy (2000). “Collected classics”

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He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.

Thomas Hardy

Sweet, Brother, Flower

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.7755, Delphi Classics

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By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Thomas Hardy

Long, Use, Roger

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3482, Delphi Classics

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Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

Thomas Hardy

Perfect, Deeds, Assumption

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.83, 谷月社

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Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

Thomas Hardy

Way, Helping, Chance

Thomas Hardy (1892). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”

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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Thomas Hardy

Family, Mother, Party

Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

Thomas Hardy

Believe, Eye, Looks

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.131, Diversion Books

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Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.

Thomas Hardy

Past, Light, Long

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3574, Delphi Classics

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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

Thomas Hardy

Girl, Advantage

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.125, 谷月社

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you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Thomas Hardy

Sensual, Ethereal, Inhuman

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.307, 谷月社

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...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.

Thomas Hardy

Distance, Hands, Suffering

Thomas Hardy (1995). “Thomas Hardy: Three Great Novels”, JG Press

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But no one came. Because no one ever does.

Thomas Hardy

Doe

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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Thomas Hardy

Stories, Moral, Parables

Thomas Hardy (2014). “Thomas Hardy: Selected Prose, Volume I”, p.65, Anthem Press

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You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

Thomas Hardy

Dream, Heaven, Suffering

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.179, 谷月社

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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Thomas Hardy

Expression, Feelings, Phrases

Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.378, e-artnow

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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

Thomas Hardy

Would Be, Paradise, Ifs

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.2080, Delphi Classics

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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

War, Bars, Crowns

"The Man He Killed" l. 17 (1909)

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He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

Thomas Hardy

Sleep, Eyelashes, Tears

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.90, Diversion Books

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There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.

Thomas Hardy

Morning, Children, Winter

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

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Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

Thomas Hardy

Done, Hours, Possibility

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1705, Delphi Classics

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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Thomas Hardy

Character, Achievement, Done

Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.412, Thomas Hardy

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He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Thomas Hardy

Feelings, Language, Silent

"Far from the Madding Crowd". Book by Thomas Hardy, 1874.

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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

Thomas Hardy

Men, Games, Loving Nature

Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.48, OUP Oxford

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To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

Thomas Hardy

Sports, Thinking, People

Thomas Hardy (2013). “The Return of the Native”, p.352, Broadview Press

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Born: June 2, 1840
Died: January 11, 1928
Occupation: Novelist
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