The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
CHARLES DICKENSIt is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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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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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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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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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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Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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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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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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You have been the last dream of my soul.
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Least said, soonest mended.
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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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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
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It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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