Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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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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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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