Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
THOMAS HARDYLet not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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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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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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