We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDYLike the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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.
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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 his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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