Thomas Hardy's Quote - I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait

Quote by Thomas Hardy

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place! – Thomas Hardy

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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Thomas Hardy

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

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He had a face like a blessing. – Miguel de Cervantes

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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. – Sir Thomas Browne

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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. – Robert Burn

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