But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
THOMAS HARDYWhy is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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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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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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