Charles Dickens Quotes, Death Quotes, Fire Quotes

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

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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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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

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We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

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... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

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She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

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I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

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[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

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The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

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I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

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"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

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Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy.

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Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

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Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

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Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

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People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

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Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

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