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.
THOMAS HARDY
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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