Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
THOMAS HARDYHappiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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 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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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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 is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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