QUOTES by Thomas Hardy
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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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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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
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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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Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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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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I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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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. -Gabriel Oak
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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...
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Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
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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.
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I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope....
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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.
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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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...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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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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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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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!
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,
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