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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.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
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
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
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
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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

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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