She 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.
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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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