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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.
The world is not a dream, but a reality, of which we are the chief part, and in which we must be up and doing something...Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
He would make a lovely corpse.