If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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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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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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