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!
THOMAS HARDYPessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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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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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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