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Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

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Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

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[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

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He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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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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Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

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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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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

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"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

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