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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.

Thomas Hardy

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange
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
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible Worst
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
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 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
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
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
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
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol

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