“Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.”
Thomas Hardy
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“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”
Thomas Hardy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.”
Thomas Hardy
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“He had been a lad of whom something was expected. Beyond this all had been chaos. That he would be successful in an original way,or that he would go to the dogs in an original way, seemed equally probable. The only absolute certainty about him was that he would not stand still in the circumstances amid which he was born.”
Thomas Hardy
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“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
Thomas Hardy
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“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
Thomas Hardy
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“Once victim, always victim — that’s the law!”
Thomas Hardy
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“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
Thomas Hardy
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“Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson’s damn.”
Thomas Hardy
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“Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
Thomas Hardy
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“That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.”
Thomas Hardy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Silence
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“Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.”
Thomas Hardy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Royalty
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“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”
Thomas Hardy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patience
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“If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.”
Thomas Hardy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Management
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“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
Thomas Hardy
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“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
Thomas Hardy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
