A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Thomas Hardy

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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
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
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
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible 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
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Business Novel Poet Sorry
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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
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
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
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 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
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
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
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
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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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

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