Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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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 concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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