103 ordspråk av Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy föddes den
2 juni 1840 och dog den 11 januari
1928 - who set much of his work in Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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I was thinking of stories I've read when I listened to the music. Then I thought about the music and painting and chose the colors, a lot of red and yellow and green.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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If someone said on Christmas Eve, / `Come see the oxen kneel . . .' / I should go with him in the gloom, / Hoping it might be so.
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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
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Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession . . .
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.
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It's a good idea. This way, it might be televised.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less / Because the all-enacting Might / That fashioned forth its loveliness / Had other aims than my delight.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own
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