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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.

Thomas Hardy

You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Bright Ideal Mental Sin
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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Better Hide Offense Truth
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Fall In Love Hide Justice Myself Relationship Reveal Wrong Yourself
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 Man Villain
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.
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Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
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.
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Enough Feeling Happiness Natural Position Social
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Difference Heaven Man Object Religion

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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