Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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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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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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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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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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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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