The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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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All romances end at marriage.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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