That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
THOMAS HARDYThat 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!
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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 have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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