Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
THOMAS HARDYDo not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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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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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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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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