Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
THOMAS HARDYYou concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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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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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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It 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.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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