February 07, 2022

Aniversários Dickens

 


Nascido neste dia, Charles Dickens, num retrato de 1850, colorido por Colouring The Past.

Aquelas barbas enormes... tão feias... enfim, perdoamos-lhe porque escrevia bem 🙂 Lembro-me como se fosse hoje de ler o David Copperfield aos 10 anos de idade. Adorei o livro e fiquei logo fã de Dickens.




Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.” 

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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

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Are tears the dewdrops of the heart?

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Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable.

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...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

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what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

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unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us


        ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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