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love said blindness
Charles Dickens Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
love inspirational life
Charles Dickens A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
love writing ambition
Charles Dickens To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.
love lost-youth ideas
Charles Dickens I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.
love mind unhappy
Charles Dickens There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
love friendship relationship
Charles Dickens Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
love powerful disappointment
Charles Dickens Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
love honesty heart
Charles Dickens To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
wise laughter people
Charles Dickens He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
wise words-of-wisdom godmother
Charles Dickens This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
wise men may
Charles Caleb Colton A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
Charles Caleb Colton If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
Charles Caleb Colton The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?