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
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope....
love-is weakness
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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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.
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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.