Today is the birthday of Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928), poet and novelist. He is best remembered for his novels, Far from the Maddening Crowd and The Return of the Native.“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Hardy
"A man's silence is wonderful to listen to." - Thomas Hardy
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity." - Thomas Hardy
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." - Thomas Hardy
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there." - Thomas Hardy"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons." - Thomas Hardy
“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.” - Thomas Hardy
Trivia bit: Thomas Hardy "died in January 1928, having dictated his final poem to his wife on his deathbed. His funeral was on 16 January at Westminster Abbey, and it proved a controversial occasion because Hardy and his family and friends had wished for his body to be interred at Stinsford in the same grave as his first wife, Emma. However, his executor, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, insisted that he be placed in the abbey's famous Poets' Corner. A compromise was reached whereby his heart was buried at Stinsford with Emma, and his ashes in Poets' Corner." direct quote source (1)
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