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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Thomas Hardy

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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
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
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
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
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness

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