Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
THOMAS HARDYSome folk want their luck buttered.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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!
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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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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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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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