Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
THOMAS HARDYI 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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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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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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