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!
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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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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I 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.
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