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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
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inspirational
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Charles Dickens |
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e5bcfa5
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I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt
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Charles Dickens |
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?
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sacrifice
death
love
inspirational
made-me-cry
nobility
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Charles Dickens |
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2e2b019
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!
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Charles Dickens |
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."
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sacrifice
love
inspirational
made-me-cry
nobility
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Charles Dickens |
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b2e8926
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No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
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Charles Dickens |
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016d804
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My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
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Charles Dickens |
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7210908
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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
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Charles Dickens |
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e86e244
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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
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Charles Dickens |
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c810530
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That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
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life
these-are-words
life-changing-events
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Charles Dickens |
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0fa85c0
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A multitude of people and yet a solitude.
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Charles Dickens |
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05a3f8a
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I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
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Charles Dickens |
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b26260f
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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Charles Dickens |
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A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
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Charles Dickens |
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Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that ..
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Charles Dickens |
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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Charles Dickens |
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7e97bbf
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, th..
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love
truth
great-writers
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Charles Dickens |
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43e58a9
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I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
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Charles Dickens |
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d211085
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You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
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Charles Dickens |
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1a1f528
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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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Charles Dickens |
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a5e3a71
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It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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lawyers
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Charles Dickens |
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bffd6d3
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
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tears
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Charles Dickens |
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5e9753d
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
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injustice
education
punishment
fair-play
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Charles Dickens |
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a2f8b65
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I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
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Charles Dickens |
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7f075ce
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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
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Charles Dickens |
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a87a007
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
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great-expectations
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Charles Dickens |
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a3436ac
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Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."
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Charles Dickens |
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c6c3272
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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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Charles Dickens |
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fa0c02e
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There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round--apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that--as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long ca..
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holidays
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Charles Dickens |
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e209cf7
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They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
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Charles Dickens |
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Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was ..
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well-worn-phrases
similes
nails
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Charles Dickens |
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b5ebfbe
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But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
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charity
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Charles Dickens |
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659bda1
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And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
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Charles Dickens |
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0a59365
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There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
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zealots
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Charles Dickens |
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db6c8f1
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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
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true-love
women
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Charles Dickens |
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83b57e1
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You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy ..
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Charles Dickens |
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7c229cd
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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
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Charles Dickens |
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673e8e2
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
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money
motivational
copperfield
micawber
pecuniary
dickens
frugality
income
debt
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Charles Dickens |
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1f277c8
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
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Charles Dickens |
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1642a05
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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
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unhappiness
marriage
mind
suitability
matches
matrimony
purpose
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Charles Dickens |
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37db7d3
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In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( , 1853)"
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utilitarianism
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Charles Dickens |
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755e01e
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Life is made of so many partings welded together
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Charles Dickens |
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24ce820
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the ..
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Charles Dickens |
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274a39e
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And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
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Charles Dickens |