Romance Quote by Thomas Hardy

“an indefinite courtship soon injures a woman’s position and credit, sooner than you think.’ ‘Baptista,” quote by Thomas Hardy — Download Open image

““an indefinite courtship soon injures a woman’s position and credit, sooner than you think.’ ‘Baptista,””

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“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad to hear the regular breathing. He softly went nearer to her, and observed that a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks, and felt that her hanging hand was no longer cold. Then he stood…

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found…

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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over…

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“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 joyous poets of three hundred years ago; but a very tolerable, well-wearing May, that the average rustic would willingly have compounded for in lieu of Mays occasionally fairer, but usually more foul.”

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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Some folk want their luck buttered.

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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

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“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

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