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Letter "T" » Thomas Hardy Quotes
«Silent? ah, he is silent! He can keep silence well. That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.»
«Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . .»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
contract, fundamental, matrimonial, permanent, ruined, temporary, union
«I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
court-martial, Death sentence, Martial, sentenced, sentenced to death
«Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blending, blends, blend in, physical courage, timidity
«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.»
«She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crises, feared, hated, indispensable, Parties, shops, tea party
«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.»
«Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.»
«A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.»
«Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, offered, peace offering, release, sylvan, The Harrow, unrest
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