Famous quotes containing the word hardy:
“I look back at it amid the rain
For the very last time; for my sand is sinking,
And I shall traverse old loves domain
Never again.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“The Young Mans Best Companion, The Farriers Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrims Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ashs Dictionary, and Walkingames Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities had done from a furlong of laden shelves.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)