Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
THOMAS HARDYIf a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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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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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 sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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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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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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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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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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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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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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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.
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