Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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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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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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You, 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!
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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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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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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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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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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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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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