You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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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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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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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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