The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. - Thomas Hardy Quotes
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. Thomas Hardy
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. - Thomas Hardy Quotes

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company. - Thomas Hardy Quotes

I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.

Thomas Hardy

 
Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings. - Thomas Hardy Quotes

Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.

Thomas Hardy

 
Who's in the next room? - who? / I seemed to see / Somebody in the dawning passing through,/ Unknown to me. - Thomas Hardy Quotes

Who's in the next room? - who? / I seemed to see / Somebody in the dawning passing through,/ Unknown to me.

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Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all. - Thomas Hardy Quotes

Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

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So little cause for carolings / Of such ecstatic sound / Was written on terrestrial things / Afar or nigh around, / That I could think there trembled through / His happy good-night air / Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware. - Thomas Hardy Quotes

So little cause for carolings / Of such ecstatic sound / Was written on terrestrial things / Afar or nigh around, / That I could think there trembled through / His happy good-night air / Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware.

Thomas Hardy

 
There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet! - Thomas Hardy Quotes

There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!

Thomas Hardy

 
And both of us, scorning parochial ways, / Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days. - Thomas Hardy Quotes

And both of us, scorning parochial ways, / Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.

Thomas Hardy

 
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you shall be - Thomas Hardy Quotes

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you shall be

Thomas Hardy

 Fire
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity - Thomas Hardy Quotes

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity

Thomas Hardy

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