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.
THOMAS HARDYWe colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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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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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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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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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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