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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have."
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Hardy
"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."
"We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek."
"It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin."
"And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape."
"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
"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."
"He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then."
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
"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."
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