It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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 main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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