The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
THOMAS HARDYWell, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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