It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
THOMAS HARDYThe 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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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.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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