The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
THOMAS HARDYThere’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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 first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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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.
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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