If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYWhen women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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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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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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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 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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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