Quotes 81 till 100 of 118.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
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Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
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Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
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The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
Old Curiosity Shop -
The men who learn endurance are those who call the whole world brother.
Barnaby Rudge -
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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