Charles Dickens Quotes, Doors Quotes, Hands Quotes

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

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Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

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One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.

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The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.

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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

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Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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