It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDY
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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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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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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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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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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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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