$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$

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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Thomas Hardy

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
THOMAS HARDY

Beginning Better Path Worst
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
THOMAS HARDY

Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
THOMAS HARDY

Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDY

Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDY

Moral Reason Wrong
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.
THOMAS HARDY

Early Eyes Freedom Touch
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
THOMAS HARDY

Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
THOMAS HARDY

Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
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!
THOMAS HARDY

Black Earth Enough Happiness Life Security Sorrow Yourself
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
THOMAS HARDY

Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
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!
THOMAS HARDY

Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
THOMAS HARDY

Love Lover
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
THOMAS HARDY

Evolution Fantasy
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.
THOMAS HARDY

Beginning Lover Secret Woman
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY

Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
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!
THOMAS HARDY

Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself