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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Thomas Hardy

You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Business Novel Poet Sorry
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Generosity License Love Woman
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
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
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 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

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