103 ordspråk av Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy föddes den
2 Juni 1840 och dog den 11 Januar
1928 - who set much of his work in Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. `Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.
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'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it, / And pay a million priests to bring it. / After two thousand years of mass / We've got as far as poison-gas.
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'What do you think of it, Moon, As you go? Is life much or no?' 'O, I think of it, often think of it As a show God ought surely to shut up soon, As I go
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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A star looks down at me, / And says: `Here I and you / Stand, each in our degree: / What do you mean to do?'
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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All her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened, and things a' didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her little wishes and ways will all be as nothing.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you shall be
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And both of us, scorning parochial ways, / Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.
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And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I
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And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.
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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
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Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.
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