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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
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
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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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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
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
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
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
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular

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