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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely 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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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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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.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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