The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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All romances end at marriage.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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