The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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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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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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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All romances end at marriage.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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