To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
THOMAS HARDYThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover 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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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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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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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