Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
THOMAS HARDYSilence 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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