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Those house them best who house for secrecy.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
And all her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened; and little things a' didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her wishes and ways will all be as nothing!
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.
Desperate Remedies (1871)
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
The Woodlanders (1887)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy ed. Michael Millgate (1984)
For incensed love breathes quick and dies,
When famished love a-lingering lies.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
So the two forces were at work here as everywhere, the inherent will to enjoy, and the circumstantial will against enjoyment.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
She had been made to break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomaly.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Love is lovelier
The more it shapes its moan in selfish-wise.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything.
Satires of Circumstance (1914)
Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Why doth IT so and so, and ever so,
This viewless,
voiceless Turner of the Wheel?
The Dynasts (1904)
How fares the Truth now?—Ill?
—Do pens but slily further her advance?
May one not speed her but in phrase askance?
Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the raindrop plows.
Moments of Vision (1917)
This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I.
And feign like truth, for one mad day,
That Earth is Paradise?
Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
In truth, her ante-nuptial regard for Fitzpiers had been rather of the quality of awe towards a superior being than of tender solicitude for a lover.
The Woodlanders (1887)
I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
For instance, people call me a pessimist; and if it is pessimism to think, with Sophocles, that's not to have been born is best,' then I do not reject the designation.