There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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 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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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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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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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All romances end at marriage.
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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 is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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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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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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