Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
THOMAS HARDYTo dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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All romances end at marriage.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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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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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be 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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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