All romances end at marriage.
THOMAS HARDYWe colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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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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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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 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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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