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.
THOMAS HARDYDo not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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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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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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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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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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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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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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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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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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