Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDYThe main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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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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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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