And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
THOMAS HARDYMeasurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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