If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
THOMAS HARDYIs a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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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!
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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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