Charles Dickens Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Heart Quotes

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

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Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

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Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

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"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

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[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

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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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You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

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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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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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To a young heart everything is fun.

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Lord, keep my memory green.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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A new heart for a New Year, always!

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

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