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"It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments."
"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."
"Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile."
"The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east."
"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."
"I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!"
"And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!"
"But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof."
"Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you."
"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty."
"There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast."
"They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat."
"We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later."
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own."
"I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
"Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one."
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
"But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat."
"The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him."
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!"