Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

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Good deal Too strange Believed Happened

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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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Spoke Mutual feeling Pretty phrases Warm expressions

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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

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Happiness Occasional episode General drama Pain

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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

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Beauty The thing Symbolized

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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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People Marrying Resist Natural forces

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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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Woman Define Feelings Language

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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick.

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Ladies Guard against Read novels Tell them

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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

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Woman Can see Distance Man

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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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One thing This life Love you Keep wanting

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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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An offense Truth Better Concealed

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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 Character Achievements Aims

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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Man's silence Wonderful Listen

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our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

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Our impulses Too strong Judgement sometimes

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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, donâ€™t you think so?

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Hobble Being alive Serious

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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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Little sun Soul Some dream Affection

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You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posses 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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You overrate Capacity Love Warmth

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All romances end at marriage.

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All romances End At marriage

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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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Some good Dead Success Frightful example

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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

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Fate Makes Villain A man

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When a strong woman 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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Strong woman Throws away Strength Worse than

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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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Question My belief Even stronger

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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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Teach me Live Grave My bed

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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

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Have torn My life Prayed In pity

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O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.

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Wish Never seen Loving Misery

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"24 Thomas Hardy Quotes & Sayings

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Thomas Hardy

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Thomas Hardy

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Thomas Hardy

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.

Thomas Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick.

Thomas Hardy

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

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

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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.

Thomas Hardy

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posses half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Thomas Hardy

All romances end at marriage.

Thomas Hardy

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.

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

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Thomas Hardy

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Thomas Hardy

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Thomas Hardy

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Thomas Hardy

O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.

Thomas Hardy

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