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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

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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Beautiful Bird Eyes Learning Sing Sweet Terrible
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
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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
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
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.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman

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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