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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Thomas Hardy

Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
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 first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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 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
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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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

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