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 DICKENSThere 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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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
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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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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.
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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
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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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Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
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Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
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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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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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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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