Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
THOMAS HARDYSome women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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