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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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