Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OMwas an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1840
together events lines
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
practice principles constitution
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
people goes-on may
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
evil impossible framed
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
life strange deals
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
heart wicked spite
My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)