There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
THOMAS HARDYThat man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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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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All romances end at marriage.
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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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