The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
THOMAS HARDYI wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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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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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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