And yet to every bad there is a worse.
THOMAS HARDYIf an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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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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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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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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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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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All romances end at marriage.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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