The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSWe lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.
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Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
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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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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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A new heart for a New Year, always!
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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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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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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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Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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What greater gift than the love of a cat.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
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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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The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
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