Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
THOMAS HARDYO, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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