Thomas Hardy OM 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. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. May these Thomas Hardy Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.” Thomas Hardy
2. “I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do, and so illustrate a moral story.” Thomas Hardy
3. “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Thomas Hardy
4. “The defective can be more than the entire.” Thomas Hardy
5. “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.” Thomas Hardy
6. “Many, have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.” Thomas Hardy
7. “So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in, some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.” Thomas Hardy
8. “The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.” Thomas Hardy
9. “We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.” Thomas Hardy
10. “Some folk want their luck buttered.” Thomas Hardy
11. “And yet to every bad there is a worse.” Thomas Hardy
12. “Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.” Thomas Hardy
13. “Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?” Thomas Hardy
14. “My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.” Thomas Hardy
15. “Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive, why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.” Thomas Hardy
16. “Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” Thomas Hardy
17. “It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity” Thomas Hardy
18. “The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.” Thomas Hardy
19. “Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” Thomas Hardy
20. “The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.” Thomas Hardy
21. “Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.” Thomas Hardy
22. “Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” Thomas Hardy
23. “It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.” Thomas Hardy
24. “If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.” Thomas Hardy
25. “To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.” Thomas Hardy
26. “The beggarly question of parentage – what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people’s, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.” Thomas Hardy
27. “Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.” Thomas Hardy
28. “Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.” Thomas Hardy
29. “Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.” Thomas Hardy
30. “There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.” Thomas Hardy
31. “Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.” Thomas Hardy
32. “The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.” Thomas Hardy
33. “A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.” Thomas Hardy
34. “Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.” Thomas Hardy
35. “Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.” Thomas Hardy
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