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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
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
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
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
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Disappoint Fulfillment Hope Leaving Remove
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Death Life Love Myself
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
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
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
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

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