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Loving is misery for women

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.
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I shall be breakfasted before

I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.
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A man's silence is wonderful

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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The fundamental error of their

The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
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Though a good deal is

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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The sudden disappointment of a

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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If a way to the

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
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A resolution to avoid an

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Fragment

Fragment
At last I entered a long dark gallery,
Catacomb-lined; and ranged at the side
Were the bodies of men from far and wide
Who, motion past, were nevertheless not dead.
"The sense of waiting here strikes strong;
Everyone's waiting, waiting, it seems to me;
What are you waiting for so long? --
What is to happen?" I said.
"O we are waiting for one called God," said they,
"(Though by some the Will, or Force, or Laws;
And, vaguely, by some, the Ultimate Cause;)
Waiting for him to see us before we are clay.
Yes; waiting, waiting, for God to know it." ...
"To know what?" questioned I.
"To know how things have been going on earth and below it:
It is clear he must know some day."
I thereon asked them why.
"Since he made us humble pioneers
Of himself in consciousness of Life's tears,
It needs no mighty prophecy
To tell that what he could mindlessly show
His creatures, he himself will know.
"By some still close-cowled mystery
We have reached feeling faster than he,
But he will overtake us anon,
If the world goes on."
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Embarcation (Southampton Docks: October, )

Embarcation (Southampton Docks: October, )
Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands,
And Cerdic with his Saxons entered in,
And Henry's army leapt afloat to win
Convincing triumphs over neighbour lands,
Vaster battalions press for further strands,
To argue in the self-same bloody mode
Which this late age of thought, and pact, and code,
Still fails to mend.--Now deckward tramp the bands,
Yellow as autumn leaves, alive as spring;
And as each host draws out upon the sea
Beyond which lies the tragical To-be,
None dubious of the cause, none murmuring,
Wives, sisters, parents, wave white hands and smile,
As if they knew not that they weep the while.
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