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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Charles Dickens

I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.
CHARLES DICKENS

Design Feeling Hurt Myself
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 DICKENS

Creation Difference Existence Philosophy
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
CHARLES DICKENS

Oneself Rain Shame Tears
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.
CHARLES DICKENS

Avoid Hope Vice Yourself
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
CHARLES DICKENS

Deep Love Philosophy
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
CHARLES DICKENS

Accomplishment Myself Reality
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.
CHARLES DICKENS

Deep Failure Inspirational Myself Philosophy Success
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.
CHARLES DICKENS

Opinion People Right True Wrong
Friendship? Yes Please.
CHARLES DICKENS

Friendship
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
CHARLES DICKENS

Best Book Hide
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
CHARLES DICKENS

Advice Myself Time
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
CHARLES DICKENS

Man Philosophy Time Wait
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
CHARLES DICKENS

Oneself Self Love Wasted Time
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS

Light World
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
CHARLES DICKENS

Herself Music Ocean
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS

Life Safety Simplicity Strong

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