Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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