It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDYMany 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.
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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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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