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And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Thomas Hardy

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
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Difficult Expression Feeling Language Man Woman
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
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
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
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
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
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 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
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
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
$Thomas Hardy Quote - Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?$

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Brain Mathematics Thinking Woman
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman

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