Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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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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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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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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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 may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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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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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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