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.
THOMAS HARDYMy 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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 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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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