Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

British writer and poet

Lived from: 1840 - 1928

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 2 june 1840 Died: 11 january 1928

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• Some folk want their luck buttered.

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• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

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• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

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• Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.

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• Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• non-necessity
• everything
• something
• surprised
• preacher
• universe

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