Logo
Quote by Thomas Hardy
Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might

Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight. – Thomas Hardy

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

Category:
Success
Author
Thomas Hardy
Read Quote

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

Category:
Sky & Clouds
Author
Thomas Hardy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Earth
category

The world is in balance <...>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. – Ursula K. LeGuin

Category:
Earth

In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which affect all of mankind. But local solutions, inevitably conditioned by local interests, are required for the problems peculiar to each human settlement. – Ren

Category:
Earth

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

Category:
Earth

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Earth

Random Quotes

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. – Marquis de Sade

Category:
Nature

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future. – Michel Martelly

Category:
positive

I follow my conscience – and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future. – Matt Drudge

Category:
communication

The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? – Marquis de Sade

Category:
Imagination