Charles Dickens Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Heart Quotes

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

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He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

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Friendship? Yes Please.

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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

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She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

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Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

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The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

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You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.

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Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

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