Charles Dickens Quotes, Past Quotes, Influence Quotes

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

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And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.

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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.

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Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

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I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

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To a young heart everything is fun.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

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The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

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Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

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Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

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