"For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him."

Memory, Blessing, Childhood, Discouragement

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"For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him."

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"'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone."

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"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."

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"I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain."

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"The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea."

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"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

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"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."

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"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."

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"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

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"My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!"

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"Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief."

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"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."

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"They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them."

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