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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
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
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble

You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

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