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.
THOMAS HARDYSilence 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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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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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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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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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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