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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

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
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
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
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
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
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
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong

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