But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
THOMAS HARDYBut his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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All romances end at marriage.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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