Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
THOMAS HARDYThe 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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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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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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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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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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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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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