Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDYA strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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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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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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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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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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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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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.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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