Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
THOMAS HARDYIt 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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