To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
THOMAS HARDYLet not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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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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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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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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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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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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