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

Thomas Hardy

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
THOMAS HARDY

Feature Tree Voice Wood
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
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
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
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Care Deserve Honor Myself People Talent
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
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
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
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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy

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