Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
THOMAS HARDYTeach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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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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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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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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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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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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