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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
THOMAS HARDY

Love Lover
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
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
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
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship
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
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
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
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
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.
THOMAS HARDY

Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story

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