The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
CHARLES DICKENSNever close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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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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Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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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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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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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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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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