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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Thomas Hardy

I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
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
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
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
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
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
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
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
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

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