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.
THOMAS HARDYIf we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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All romances end at marriage.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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