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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Thomas Hardy

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Hands Heart Herself Perfection Woman Work
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 ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Enough Feeling Happiness Natural Position Social
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
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
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
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
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

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

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