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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Done because we are too many.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
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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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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.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
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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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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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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