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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Thomas Hardy

To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Black Earth Enough Happiness Life Security Sorrow Yourself
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Brain Mathematics Thinking Woman
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
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
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
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
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

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