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.
THOMAS HARDYTheir 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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 his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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All romances end at marriage.
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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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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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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