Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDYWomen accept their destiny more readily than men.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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So 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.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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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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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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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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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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