Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDYLike the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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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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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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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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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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