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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

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
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

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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