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.
THOMAS HARDYHappiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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