Quote by Charles Dickens (about London)

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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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.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Christmas

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Life Fate & Destiny

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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Heart Love

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

Crying & Tears

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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Farewell & Goodbye

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Laughing & Smile

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

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.

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Heart Love

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Laughing & Smile

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

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Life Love Humor & Comedy

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

Mr. Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures—found only among women—who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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Wisdom Mind vs. Heart

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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London

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

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London

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Remorse

Christmas? Shut up!

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol - Von Ebenezer Scrooge

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Love declerations

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.

Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Crying & Tears

Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

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If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

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Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

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Love

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

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Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

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Quote by Charles Dickens (about London)

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