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Thomas Hardy12 quotes
Pessimism (or rather what is called such) is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. — Thomas Hardy · 1902Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. — Thomas Hardy · 1871Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise. — Thomas Hardy · 1872Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power. — Thomas Hardy · 1891It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy · 1874And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. — Thomas Hardy · 1912All 12 quotes →