The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
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Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.
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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
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To a young heart everything is fun.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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Friendship? Yes Please.
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Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.
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