Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
THOMAS HARDYBut his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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The 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.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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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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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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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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