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.
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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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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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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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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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