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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.
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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.
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Charles Dickens There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
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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.
life contentment cheerful
Charles Dickens Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
life strong truth
Charles Dickens There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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Charles Dickens Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
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Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Charles Caleb Colton Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
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Charles Caleb Colton Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
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Charles Dickens There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
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Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life.
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Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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Charles Caleb Colton If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
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Charles Caleb Colton We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Charles Caleb Colton To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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Charles Caleb Colton What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
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Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.