The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
THOMAS HARDYTheir position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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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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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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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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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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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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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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