“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps to know her would be to cure himself of this unexpected and unauthorized passion.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity! — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The perfect woman, you see, is a working woman; not an idle, not a fine lady, but one who uses her hands… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame!… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking", she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She saw nothing of Winterborne during he days of her recovery: and perhaps on that account her fancy wove about him a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern at her situation… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
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