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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.

Thomas Hardy

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Brain Mathematics Thinking Woman
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
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 first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
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
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
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

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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