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If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be

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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy

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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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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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