Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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