Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends...

Thomas Hardy
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  2. The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions. - Steve Maraboli

  3. What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. - Jason Fried

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  5. Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp. - Edward Abbey

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  1. Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

  2. At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving...

  3. I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on...

  4. Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering,...

  5. Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

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