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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.
Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!