Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
CHARLES DICKENSA day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
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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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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
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A very little key will open a very heavy door.
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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
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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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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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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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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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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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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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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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