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 HARDYDo not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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