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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

Thomas Hardy

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Black Earth Enough Happiness Life Security Sorrow Yourself
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
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
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Difference Heaven Man Object Religion
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

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