Charles Dickens Quotes, Strong Quotes, Long Quotes

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Long Quotes

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Long Quotes , Bored Quotes

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Long Quotes

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Long Quotes , Favors Quotes

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Long Quotes , Sun Quotes

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Path Quotes

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Long Quotes , Soul Quotes

I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Long Quotes , Track Quotes

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Long Quotes , Vapour Quotes

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Long Quotes , Acting Quotes

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

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Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Long Quotes

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

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I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.

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Tags : Adelaide Clemens Quotes , Wonderful Friends Quotes , Long Quotes

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Long Quotes , Letters Quotes

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Long Quotes , Doubt Quotes