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.
THOMAS HARDYThe 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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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 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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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