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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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
She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Bright Ideal Mental Sin
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship
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
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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
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
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Difference Heaven Man Object Religion
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
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
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
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
It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst

That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.

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