Well, 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.
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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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It 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.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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