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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

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
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
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
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
Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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

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