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.
THOMAS HARDYRemember 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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.
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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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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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