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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Thomas Hardy

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Cruelty Different Fate Hope Indulgence Love Obstacle Sad
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
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
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
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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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
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

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