Charles Dickens Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Heart Quotes

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 aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

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You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

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Heaven suits the back to the burden.

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A multitude of people and yet solitude.

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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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Have a heart that never hardens

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May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

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

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Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment.

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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

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

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I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears started to my eyes.

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As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

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