Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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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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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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