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.
THOMAS HARDYBeauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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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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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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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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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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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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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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