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!
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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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 strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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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 man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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