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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Thomas Hardy

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
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
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
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
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
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship
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

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

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