My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
THOMAS HARDYIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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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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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at 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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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