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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

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
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
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
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
THOMAS HARDY

Life Myself Pieces Prayer
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
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
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
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

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