I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
THOMAS HARDYMy eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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