She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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