Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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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 value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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