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

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 ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
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
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
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong

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

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