If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYSo each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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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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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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