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Charles Dickens: Dollars! All their...

Charles Dickens: Dollars! All their...

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars....

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Charles Dickens: A literary man...

Charles Dickens: A literary man...

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

Source: (Mr Boffin on Silas Wegg) Our Mutual...

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Charles Dickens: Orses and dorgs...

Charles Dickens: Orses and dorgs...

'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me.

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Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

'There are strings,' said Mr Tappertit, `. . . in the human heart that had better not be...

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Charles Dickens: Lord, keep my...

Charles Dickens: Lord, keep my...

Lord, keep my memory green.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Charles Dickens: This is a...

Charles Dickens: This is a...

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Source: In The...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Strength does not...

Mahatma Gandhi: Strength does not...

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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Henry Ward Beecher: Living is death;...

Henry Ward Beecher: Living is death;...

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that...

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Thomas Carlyle: By nature man...

Thomas Carlyle: By nature man...

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his...

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Thomas Carlyle: Figure him there,...

Thomas Carlyle: Figure him there,...

Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts;...

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Thomas Carlyle: Even in the...

Thomas Carlyle: Even in the...

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he...

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Thomas Carlyle: For suffering and...

Thomas Carlyle: For suffering and...

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Source: In...

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Thomas Carlyle: In a controversy...

Thomas Carlyle: In a controversy...

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for...

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Thomas Carlyle: Ill-health, of body...

Thomas Carlyle: Ill-health, of body...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be...

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Thomas Carlyle: Real good breeding,...

Thomas Carlyle: Real good breeding,...

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful...

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Thomas Carlyle: Song is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Song is the...

Song is the heroics of speech.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Thomas Carlyle: Old age is...

Thomas Carlyle: Old age is...

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind...

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Thomas Carlyle: Pleasure is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Pleasure is the...

Pleasure is the last resort of the desperate. Happy people do not need to be amused.

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Thomas Carlyle: Speech is of...

Thomas Carlyle: Speech is of...

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Source: 'Sartor Resartus'
-- Thomas...

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Thomas Carlyle: The block of...

Thomas Carlyle: The block of...

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the...

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