Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
THOMAS HARDYThe 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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All romances end at marriage.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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