We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us… — 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
