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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.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
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
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
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Hands Heart Herself Perfection Woman Work
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
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
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman
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
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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful

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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