If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
THOMAS HARDYLet me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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 main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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