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.
THOMAS HARDYYou have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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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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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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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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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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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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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