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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Thomas Hardy

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
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
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
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 are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence 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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music

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