And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
THOMAS HARDYAnd at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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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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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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