It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
THOMAS HARDY
To 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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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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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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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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All romances end at marriage.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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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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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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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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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
THOMAS HARDY