Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDYDo not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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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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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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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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