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 HARDYTo 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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