# Thomas Hardy

- Quotes: 85
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy

## Books

- [A Pair of Blue Eyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/a-pair-of-blue-eyes.md) — 1 quote
- [Desperate Remedies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/desperate-remedies.md) — 3 quotes
- [Far From The Madding Crowd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/far-from-the-madding-crowd.md) — 8 quotes
- [Jude the Obscure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/jude-the-obscure.md) — 8 quotes
- [Tess of the D'Urbervilles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/tess-of-the-durbervilles.md) — 13 quotes
- [The Hand of Ethelberta](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-hand-of-ethelberta.md) — 6 quotes
- [The Mayor of Casterbridge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-mayor-of-casterbridge.md) — 7 quotes
- [The Return of the Native](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-return-of-the-native.md) — 15 quotes
- [The Woodlanders](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-woodlanders.md) — 4 quotes
- [Two on a Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/two-on-a-tower.md) — 2 quotes
- [Under the Greenwood Tree](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/under-the-greenwood-tree.md) — 2 quotes
- [Wessex Poems and Other Verses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/wessex-poems-and-other-verses.md) — 17 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> All the vast various moils that mean a world alive.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/wessex-poems-and-other-verses/all-the-vast.md)

> Yet saw he something in the lives
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> Of those who'd ceased to live
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> That rounded them with majesty
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> Which living failed to give.

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> For incensed love breathes quick and dies,
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> When famished love a-lingering lies.

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> These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
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> Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

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> O, doth a bird deprived of wings
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> Go earth-bound wilfully!

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> William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
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> Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's,
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> And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!

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> You may prate of your prowess in lusty times,
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> But as years gnaw inward you blink your bays,
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> And see too well your crimes!

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> "Gone," I call them, gone for good, that group of local hearts and heads;
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> Yet at mothy curfew-tide,
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> And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and leads, They've a way of whispering to me—fellow-wight who yet abide.

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> Numb as a vane that cankers on its point,
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> True to the wind that kissed ere canker came.

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> For winning love we win the risk of losing,
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> And losing love is as one's life were riven.

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> Love is lovelier
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> The more it shapes its moan in selfish-wise.

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> Those house them best who house for secrecy.

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