If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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