The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSYes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
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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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I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.
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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
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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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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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Friendship? Yes Please.
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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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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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Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
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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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