“ The memory of earthly things is charged, in after life, with bitter disappointment, affliction, death; with dreary change and wasting sorrow. ”
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby (1839). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Topic | disappointment death |
| Date | 1839 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/967/967-h/967-h.htm |
Context
““ Stay! ” said the monk, raising his right hand in the air, and directing an angry glance by turns at Alice and the eldest sister. “ Stay, and hear from me what these recollections are, which you would cherish above eternity, and awaken—if in mercy they slumbered—by means of idle toys. The memory of earthly things is charged, in after life, with bitter disappointment, affliction, death; with dreary change and wasting sorrow. The time will one day come, when a glance at those unmeaning baubles will tear open deep wounds in the hearts of some among you, and strike to your inmost souls. When that hour arrives—and, mark me, come it will—turn from the world to which you clung, to the refuge which you spurned.”
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