Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDYThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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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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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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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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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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When 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.
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