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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!

Thomas Hardy

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDY

Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
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
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
She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Bright Ideal Mental Sin
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
THOMAS HARDY

Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story
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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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 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
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
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!

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