Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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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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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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