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I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
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The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
Thomas Hardy
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy -
I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
Thomas Hardy -
Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
Thomas Hardy -
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!
Thomas Hardy -
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.
Thomas Hardy -
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.
Thomas Hardy
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Thomas Hardy -
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
Thomas Hardy -
My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
Thomas Hardy -
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
Thomas Hardy -
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Thomas Hardy -
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
Thomas Hardy
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Thomas Hardy -
- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.
Thomas Hardy -
By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
Thomas Hardy -
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
Thomas Hardy -
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
Thomas Hardy -
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
Thomas Hardy -
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy -
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy -
Done because we are too many.
Thomas Hardy