Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
THOMAS HARDYWomen accept their destiny more readily than men.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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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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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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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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