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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

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
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
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
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
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
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
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
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch
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
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

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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