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“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
-- Charles Dickens
#Heart #Tears #Stronger
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“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Love #Spiritual #Truth
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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Love #Inspirational #Family
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“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Love #Family #Happiness
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“But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Christmas #Heart #Men
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“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Summer #Spring #Winter
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“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Girl #Animal #Boys
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“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Mind #Colour #New Thought
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“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Heart #Men #Compassion
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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.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Christmas #Children #Sometimes
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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Inspirational #Happiness #Thank You
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“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Cat #Animal #Humanity
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“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Freedom #Butterfly #Deny
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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.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Pain #Teaching #Heart
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“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Love #Mean #Men
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“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Wisdom #Looks #Investing
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“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Time #Son #Boys
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“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Law #People #Would Be
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“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
-- Charles Dickens
#Funny #Christmas #Home
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“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Strength #Encouraging #Dark
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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. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Sorry #Rain #Heart
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“My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Uncles #Air #Gentleman
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“They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Light #Glasses #Broken
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“Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Life #Littles
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“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Home #Doors #Umpires
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“I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Love #Night #Reality
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“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Family #Blood #Giving
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“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Fall #Mind #Comfort
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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
-- Charles Dickens
#Promise #Most Romantic #Reason
