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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
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
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman
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 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
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
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success

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