Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
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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To a young heart everything is fun.
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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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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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the 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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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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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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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
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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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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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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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Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.
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