Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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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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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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