Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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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I 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.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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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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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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