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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

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.
THOMAS HARDY

Death Life Love Myself
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
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
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
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
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
THOMAS HARDY

Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
THOMAS HARDY

Beginning Lover Secret Woman
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time

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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