Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks, depend upon it.
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
The ashes of the commonest fire are melancholy things, for in them there is an image of death and ruin,—of something that has been bright, and is but dull, cold, dreary dust.
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
"All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone."
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
With them who stood upon the brink of the great gulf which none can see beyond, Time, so soon to lose itself in vast Eternity, rolled on like a mighty river, swollen and rapid as it nears the sea.
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
She had found her heart at last. Never having known its worth till now, she had never known the worth of his.
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
"Come when they may, they shall not find us skulking and hiding, as if we feared to take our portion of the light of day, and left it all to them."
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
"But recollect from this time that all good things perverted to evil purposes, are worse than those which are naturally bad. A thoroughly wicked woman, is wicked indeed. When religion goes wrong, she is very wrong, for the same reason."
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
He caught the fancy of the king, knelt down a grub, and rose a butterfly.
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master-passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind.
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Barnaby Rudge by
Charles Dickens
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