“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Nature does not often say 'See?' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Yes. I—I can't help liking her—just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there, the most… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing, some… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled 'like the laughter of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall… — 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
