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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Thomas Hardy

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship 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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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
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
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Disappoint Fulfillment Hope Leaving Remove
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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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
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
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
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 a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
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
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
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Death Life Love Myself
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

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