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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

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Black Earth Enough Happiness Life Security Sorrow 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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Enough Feeling Happiness Natural Position Social
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
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
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
THOMAS HARDY

Life Myself Pieces Prayer
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong

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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