Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDYI wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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So 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.
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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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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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