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.
THOMAS HARDYYou 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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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.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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