Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDYTo dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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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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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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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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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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