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

Thomas Hardy

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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Cruelty Different Fate Hope Indulgence Love Obstacle Sad
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
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
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
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
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
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
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
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
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word

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