You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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My 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.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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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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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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