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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

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex 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
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Death Life Love Myself
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch
To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate

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

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