My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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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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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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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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