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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Thomas Hardy
Silence, Soul, Feelings
Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.80, 谷月社

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy
Men, Feelings, Language
'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1874) ch. 81

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

Thomas Hardy
Stress, Feelings, Lines
Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.130, Xist Publishing

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Thomas Hardy
Expression, Feelings, Phrases
Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.378, e-artnow

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Thomas Hardy
Feelings, Language, Silent
"Far from the Madding Crowd". Book by Thomas Hardy, 1874.

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