All romances end at marriage.
THOMAS HARDYIf an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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