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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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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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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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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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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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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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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