We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
THOMAS HARDYPessimism 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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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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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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