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- The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a…
- Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who…
- And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which…
- But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
- What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
- I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy…
- There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.
- Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
- The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever…
- Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is…
- If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
- Reflect upon your present blessings
- The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is…
- At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and…
- Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older,…
- It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
- The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where…
- Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
- 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
- It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention…
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
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- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
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