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.
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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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 overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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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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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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