You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you. Thomas Hardy More Quotes by Thomas Hardy More Quotes From Thomas Hardy ...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes Thomas Hardy judgement strong sometimes Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. Thomas Hardy intensity measurement experience 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 autumn summer past The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy framed evil impossible George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise. Thomas Hardy fate taken dog Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. Thomas Hardy deals strange life Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Thomas Hardy loss-of-a-loved-one peace-with-god heart There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. Thomas Hardy lines events together If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. Thomas Hardy being-single doomed single It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity Thomas Hardy humanity would-be perfect 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 goes-on may people To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover. Thomas Hardy desire-love loneliness long If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. Thomas Hardy concealed offense truth-is We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. Thomas Hardy mould eye want Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. Thomas Hardy nature light love It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail. Thomas Hardy cutting people looks There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating. Thomas Hardy music ties friendly She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will. Thomas Hardy passion and-love hands 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 spinning matter dream Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play. Thomas Hardy views games children
