The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. - Thomas Hardy
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
- Thomas Hardy
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. - Thomas Hardy
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. - Thomas Hardy
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening. - Thomas Hardy
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain. - Thomas Hardy
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. - Thomas Hardy
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. - Thomas Hardy
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Some folk want their luck buttered. - Thomas Hardy
Some folk want their luck buttered.
And yet to every bad there is a worse. - Thomas Hardy
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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