All romances end at marriage.
THOMAS HARDYI 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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 main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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