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.
THOMAS HARDYThe perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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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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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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