Thomas Hardy Quotes

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
Change
When I set out for Lyonnesse, And starlight lit my lonesomeness.
Thomas Hardy
Literature
To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience
Thomas Hardy
Friendship
With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.
Thomas Hardy
Love
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.
Thomas Hardy
Nature
For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.
Thomas Hardy
Love
Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.
Thomas Hardy
Work
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy
Literature
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy
Politics

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