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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.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
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
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
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
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
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
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself

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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