Charles Dickens Quotes, Love Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

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Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

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"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

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

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There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

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Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.

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Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

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And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

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He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

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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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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

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He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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

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Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

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