Thomas Hardy

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“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

beauty thing symbolize

“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

marriage natural force instinct month pleasure life comfort

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

evil avoid resolution impossible

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

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

dweller wood tree voice feature

“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

friendly tie music eating

“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

bad worse

“…and yet to every bad, there is a worse”

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

time change surprise inside

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

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

religion object man heaven

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

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

colour mould want belief eyes bring see

"We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in."

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

flux reflux rhythm change alternate

"So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky."

― Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)