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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Thomas Hardy

The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
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
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
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
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Difference Heaven Man Object Religion
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
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

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