Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
THOMAS HARDYIndifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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 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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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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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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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