I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.

Charles Dickens

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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

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

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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

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Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

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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.

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

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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

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Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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We forge the chains we wear in life.

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