Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
THOMAS HARDYPeople 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.
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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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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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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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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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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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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