Hardy

Famous quotes containing the word hardy:

“That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
I’d liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“preacher glides to the vestry-door,
And shuts it, and thinks he is seen no more.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)