The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
THOMAS HARDYIt 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Many 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.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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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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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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