Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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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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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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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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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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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