The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
THOMAS HARDYYou 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!
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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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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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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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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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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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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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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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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