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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

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
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
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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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance
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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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
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

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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