People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
THOMAS HARDYThat it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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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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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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All romances end at marriage.
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