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.
CHARLES DICKENSWe can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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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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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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We 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.
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A new heart for a New Year, always!
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
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True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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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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I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
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Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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