Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
THOMAS HARDYThe sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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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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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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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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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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