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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

The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
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
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
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
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Cruelty Different Fate Hope Indulgence Love Obstacle Sad
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible Worst
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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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch

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