"This is a world of action, and not…" — Charles Dickens
"This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in."
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667 Quotes by Charles Dickens
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Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient…
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the…
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the…
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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
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And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void…
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the…
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
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A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!
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In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
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Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his…
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It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before…
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"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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