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A Tale of Two Cities quotes

Charles Dickens

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“There is prodigious strength . . . in sorrow and despair.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Nothing that we do, is done in vain.”
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“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, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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