Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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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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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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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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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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All romances end at marriage.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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