It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
THOMAS HARDYA lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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