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

Thomas Hardy

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Black Earth Enough Happiness Life Security Sorrow Yourself
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
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
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself

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

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