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.
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Always wanting another man than your own.
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
The defective can be more than the entire.
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order
WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.
He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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.
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