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9 Quotes for 'Thomas Hardy' in the Database.
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Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Guesses at Truth (vol. I)
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A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
Topic: Discretion
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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Topic: History
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A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
Topic: Indiscretion
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Topic: Obscurity
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Topic: Pessimism
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Topic: Poetry
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If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
Topic: Vulnerability
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