Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
THOMAS HARDYSo 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.
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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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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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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