Charles Dickens Quotes, Believe Quotes, Echoes Quotes

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

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You have been the last dream of my soul.

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If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

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Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

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Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

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Change begets change.

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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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... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

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It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.

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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

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Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

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I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

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And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

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He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

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