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Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

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So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin-retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.

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Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

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things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

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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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The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

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The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

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A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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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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He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.

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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

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

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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

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Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

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