There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
THOMAS HARDY
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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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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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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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