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Thomas Hardy

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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.


— Thomas Hardy


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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.


— Thomas Hardy


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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.


— Thomas Hardy


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


— Thomas Hardy


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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.


— Thomas Hardy


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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.


— Thomas Hardy


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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.


— Thomas Hardy


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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.


— Thomas Hardy


#course #critical #decision #events #high

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.


— Thomas Hardy


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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.


— Thomas Hardy


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About Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy Quotes




Did you know about Thomas Hardy?

His verse had a profound influence on later writers notably Philip Larkin who included many of Hardy's poems in the edition of the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse that Larkin edited in 1973. In 1870 while on an architectural mission to restore the parish church of St Juliot in Cornwall Hardy met and fell in love with Emma Lavinia Gifford whom he married in 1874. Shortly after Hardy's death the executors of his estate burnt his letters and notebooks.

However since the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet and had a significant influence on The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s including Phillip Larkin. Initially therefore he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset Wiltshire Somerset Devon Hampshire and much of Berkshire in south west England.

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