You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYThe offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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