It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
CHARLES DICKENSI loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
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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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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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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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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.
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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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It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
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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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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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