If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
THOMAS HARDYHappiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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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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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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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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