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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.

Thomas Hardy

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Fall In Love Hide Justice Myself Relationship Reveal Wrong Yourself
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
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
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch
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
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
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
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Hands Heart Herself Perfection Woman Work
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.

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