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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.

Thomas Hardy

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
THOMAS HARDY

Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
THOMAS HARDY

Live Mental Togetherness
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
THOMAS HARDY

Business Novel Poet Sorry
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
THOMAS HARDY

Change Exception Surprise Time
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
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
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY

Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
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
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDY

Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
THOMAS HARDY

Love Lover
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDY

Argument Custom Moral Poet
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
THOMAS HARDY

Experience Intense Life Measurement
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
THOMAS HARDY

Eat Friendship Music

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