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

Thomas Hardy

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 sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Disappoint Fulfillment Hope Leaving Remove
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Difficult Expression Feeling Language Man Woman
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Care Deserve Honor Myself People Talent
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
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
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
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Death Life Love Myself
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself

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

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