Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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