To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
THOMAS HARDYI may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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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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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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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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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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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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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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