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

Thomas Hardy

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner 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
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness

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