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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Thomas Hardy

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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
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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
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
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time
Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
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
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
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
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

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

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