Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Their 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.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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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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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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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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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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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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