Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Thomas Hardy More Quotes by Thomas Hardy More Quotes From Thomas Hardy We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more. Thomas Hardy communion ought The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones") Thomas Hardy tone alive mouths But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. Thomas Hardy fancy wish want Some folk want their luck buttered. Thomas Hardy luck business want The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. Thomas Hardy time jobs men This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so? Thomas Hardy alive serious thinking Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Thomas Hardy constitution principles practice How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all! Thomas Hardy destiny done heaven Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store? Thomas Hardy tomorrow past thinking I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. Thomas Hardy rough-times flesh faces My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella) Thomas Hardy spite wicked heart This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam. Thomas Hardy passion strong sex Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful. Thomas Hardy exhibitions painful may They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Thomas Hardy phrases expression feelings Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it. Thomas Hardy bishops often-is giving Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. Thomas Hardy fate doe men It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. Thomas Hardy rays eye sun Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so. Thomas Hardy paradise ifs would-be Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. Thomas Hardy black light earth Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. Thomas Hardy shrinks knowing sometimes