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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation 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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story
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
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman

There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

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