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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Thomas Hardy

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Bright Ideal Mental Sin
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Fall In Love Hide Justice Myself Relationship Reveal Wrong Yourself
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol

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