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It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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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.
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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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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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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
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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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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I 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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