If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
THOMAS HARDY
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
THOMAS HARDY