If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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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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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 folk want their luck buttered.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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