Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
THOMAS HARDYA strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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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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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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