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Upon Quotes by Thomas Hardy
- 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…
- Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate…
- That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be…
- Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such…
- We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;…
- It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look…
- 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! You are, upon…
- It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
- It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet…
- He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping…
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