Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDYThe 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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