The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
CHARLES DICKENSAn idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.
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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.
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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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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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Reflect upon your present blessings.
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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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