We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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