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heart past men
Charles Dickens For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?
heart merry-christmas history
Charles Dickens every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
heart men ordinary
Charles Dickens I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.
heart men compassion
Charles Dickens 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.
heart thinking broken
Charles Dickens The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
heart men expectations
Charles Dickens it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
heart night cities
Charles Dickens A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
heart literature emotion
Charles Dickens There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
night doors hands
Charles Dickens For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.
night liberty sun
Charles Caleb Colton Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
night people causes
Charles Dickens People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
night doctors two
Charles Dickens The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
night men wind
Charles Dickens "I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
night giving church
Charles Dickens Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.
night air sky
Charles Dickens [I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
night men sky
Charles Spurgeon He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
night hands names
Charles Spurgeon When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!
cities mind vision
Charles Dickens That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
cities mind moral
Charles Caleb Colton I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
cities literature village
Charles Caleb Colton If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
cities discipline suffering
Charles Stanley The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.
cities dying wipe
Alan Moore This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
cities london england
Alan Moore London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
cities doldrums has-beens
Alan Hansen Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
cities space
Alan Bean Eventually there are going to be cities in space.
cities perception facts
Alan Autry In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.