Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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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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