Quote by Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature. – Charles Dickens

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Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if theyve kept a public house, Sammy. – Charles Dickens

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. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. – Charles Dickens

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It is better to do ones own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. – Lao Tzu

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We are more than just flesh and bones. Theres a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we cant measure. We cant find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet its there. – Benjamin Carson

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Im concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. – Joan Jett

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