Charles Dickens Quotes, Nature Quotes, Wall Quotes

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and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

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Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

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It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

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... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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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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Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

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Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

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Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

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The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

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God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

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