Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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!
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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