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.
THOMAS HARDYOf course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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All romances end at marriage.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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