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.
THOMAS HARDYThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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