Quotes by Words Of Wisdom The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom shadow angel No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom beer book But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom shadow fighting All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens crowns words-of-wisdom self I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it? Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom men way A word in earnest is as good as a speech. Charles Dickens earnest words-of-wisdom speech This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens godmother words-of-wisdom wise It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom expectations home Trifles make the sum of life. Charles Dickens trifles words-of-wisdom classic Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone. Charles Dickens me-alone words-of-wisdom surprise So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom expectations people Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. Charles Dickens innocent-man words-of-wisdom men Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. Charles Dickens being-true words-of-wisdom said Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom cheerful poor My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom daughter bravery At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . . Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom done thinking Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom facts people When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others. Charles Dickens papa words-of-wisdom thinking Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom believe world No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die. Charles Dickens aversion words-of-wisdom men «1234567891011»