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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Thomas Hardy

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Care Deserve Honor Myself People Talent
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
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
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
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
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 a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
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
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
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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

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