You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYShe was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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 sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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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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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.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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All romances end at marriage.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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