Charles Dickens Quotes, Passion Quotes, Thinking Quotes

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

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It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

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If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

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

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And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

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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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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

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The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

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Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

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The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

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