The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. Thomas Hardy More Quotes by Thomas Hardy More Quotes From Thomas Hardy War makes rattling good history. Thomas Hardy good-historywarpeace That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units. Thomas Hardy coldearthworld Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so. Thomas Hardy oxenlonelyloneliness War makes good history but peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy readingwarpeace That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity! Thomas Hardy doglossheart Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. Thomas Hardy realhonorpeople The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage. Thomas Hardy sagecausesfirsts The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. Thomas Hardy officedecisionyears If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy poetrymightworld A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. Thomas Hardy argumentreadingmatter Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening. Thomas Hardy womenlisteningbelieve That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. Thomas Hardy silencewonderfulmen If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy anarchyacceptancelooks It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts. Thomas Hardy powerfulspringmoving To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road. Thomas Hardy dancefiremen Women accept their destiny more readily than men. Thomas Hardy destinyacceptingmen ...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. Thomas Hardy sinisterbrightnessclouds He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards. Thomas Hardy flowerbrothersweet Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world. Thomas Hardy crusherrorswish A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. Thomas Hardy extinctionlongyears
