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 DICKENSIt is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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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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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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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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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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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
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Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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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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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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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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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
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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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You have been the last dream of my soul.
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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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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I 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.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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