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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.

Thomas Hardy

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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
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
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
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
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
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch

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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