"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
-Thomas Hardy
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
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"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
-Thomas Hardy
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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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