Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
THOMAS HARDYThe resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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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