Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
THOMAS HARDYIt was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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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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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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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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