But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
THOMAS HARDYThere’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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