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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
CHARLES DICKENS

Heart Lips Yourself
I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
CHARLES DICKENS

Break Change Hope Self Love
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
CHARLES DICKENS

Failure Learning Man Teaching
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
CHARLES DICKENS

Enough Myself World
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
CHARLES DICKENS

Character Heart Self Love Touch
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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Goodness Talk Word
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
CHARLES DICKENS

Philosophy Silence
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
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Impossible Inspirational
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
CHARLES DICKENS

Oneself Rain Shame Tears
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
CHARLES DICKENS

Man Philosophy Time Wait
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.
CHARLES DICKENS

Attention Food Funny Ignorance Pay
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS

Life Safety Simplicity Strong
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
CHARLES DICKENS

Blessing Man Presence Reflection
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
CHARLES DICKENS

Expectation Gift Happiness
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.
CHARLES DICKENS

Carry Hell Love Mad Misery Myself Vision
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.
CHARLES DICKENS

Bright Burn Remember

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