Charles Dickens Quotes, Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Rights Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Parent Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dumb Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

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.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Said Quotes

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , People Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Weather Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Deals Quotes

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , People Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Wise Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Self Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Reality Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Principles Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Angel Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Cheerful Quotes

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Nature Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Crowds Quotes

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Atheism Quotes

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Trials Quotes