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!
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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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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 eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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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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