# Quote — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

> The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Book: [The Return of the Native](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-return-of-the-native.md)
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> Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.

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> How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of?

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> A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity.

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