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Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. (Charles Dickens)
The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. View quote
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Keep up appearances whatever you do. View quote
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. View quote
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Remember to the last, that while there is life there is hope. View quote
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It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. View quote
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. View quote
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything. View quote
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. View quote
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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. View quote
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Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. (Charles Dickens)
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. View quote
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. View quote
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Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. View quote
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. View quote
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To a young heart everything is fun. View quote
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. View quote
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You have been the last dream of my soul. View quote
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. View quote
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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. View quote
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There are some upon this earth of yours, returned the Spirit, 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 out kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. (Charles Dickens)
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. View quote
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A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow. View quote
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: February 7, 1812
Died: June 9, 1870
Quotes count: 529
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