We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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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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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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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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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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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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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