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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Thomas Hardy

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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
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
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
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Beautiful Bird Eyes Learning Sing Sweet Terrible
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
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
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
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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

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