Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
THOMAS HARDYYou, 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!
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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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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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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