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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
THOMAS HARDY

Judgement Ourselves Strong
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Fall In Love Hide Justice Myself Relationship Reveal Wrong Yourself
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
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
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Care Deserve Honor Myself People Talent
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
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
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDY

Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
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
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
THOMAS HARDY

Eat Friendship Music

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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