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.
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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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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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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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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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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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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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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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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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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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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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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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