Thomas Hardy Quotes
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy
Quotes to Explore
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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
Plato
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And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
Plato
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
Sophocles
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
Edgar Allan Poe
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No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
Philip James Bailey
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You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.
Sarah Dessen
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The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.
Anne Bronte
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I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
Tom Hanks
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There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
Bob Herbert
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Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...
Cate Tiernan
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou
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We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people when we were young.
Warren MacKenzie
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy
