The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSA word in earnest is as good as a speech.
More Charles Dickens Quotes
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Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.
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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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My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
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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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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.
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Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
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What greater gift than the love of a cat.
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.
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