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.
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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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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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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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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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Some 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.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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