You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYTime changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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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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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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