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Charles Dickens Inspirational Quotes (576)

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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
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a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
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Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
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Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within.
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Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!
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Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
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Your tale is of the longest, observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man, returned Mr. Brownlow, and such tales usually are if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.
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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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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
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Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.
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I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me, sighed Kate.
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I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
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And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away!
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
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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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The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
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Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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