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"And feign like truth, for one mad day, That Earth is Paradise?"
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Thomas HardyA local thing called Christianity. — Thomas Hardy
"A local thing called Christianity."
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Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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"Gone," I call them, gone for good, that group of local hearts and heads; Yet at mothy curfew-tide, And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and leads, Theyve a way of whispering to me—fellow-wight who yet abide."
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"Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture."
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"Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants."
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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."
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"For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease."
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