If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
THOMAS HARDYWe colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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