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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Thomas Hardy

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.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess 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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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
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
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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Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
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
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
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
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
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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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun

Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

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