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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

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
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
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
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
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
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
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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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

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

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