Circumscribing Quotes
- The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her… — Thomas Hardy
- There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in… — Thomas Hardy