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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
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
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
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
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Enough Feeling Happiness Natural Position Social
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
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
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
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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
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
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
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

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