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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
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
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
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
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
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
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
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
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange

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