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«To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.»
«Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
inconsistencies, in practice, in principle, the British
«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 . . .»
«The social molds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to real star patterns»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
conventional, molds, shapes, social relations
«I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had existed I should have discovered him»
«Well, World, you have kept faith with me, / Kept faith with me; / Upon the whole you have proved to be / Much as you said you were.»
«Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.»
«Let me enjoy the earth no less / Because the all-enacting Might / That fashioned forth its loveliness / Had other aims than my delight.»
«Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. / `Now they are all on their knees.'»
«So little cause for carolings / Of such ecstatic sound / Was written on terrestrial things / Afar or nigh around, / That I could think there trembled through / His happy good-night air / Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ecstatic, good night, terrestrial, trembled, whereof
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