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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Thomas Hardy

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
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 business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Business Novel Poet Sorry
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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
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
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
THOMAS HARDY

Judgement Ourselves Strong

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