Quotes 61 till 80 of 118.
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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
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No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens.
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Not in our heads but in our hearts lies the power, that leads us to great deeds.
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Now, what I want is, Facts... Facts alone are wanted in life.
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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
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Persevere in a thorough determination to do whatever you have to do, as well as you can do it.
Letter to Edward Dickens 26 sept. 1868 -
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837) Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner -
Simplicity and plainness are the soul of elegance.
Old Curiosity Shop (1841) -
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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