It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
THOMAS HARDYThe business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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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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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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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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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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