My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Their 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.
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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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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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All romances end at marriage.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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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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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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