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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

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
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
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Beautiful Bird Eyes Learning Sing Sweet Terrible
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
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
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
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
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.
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Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible Worst
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman

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