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Quotes about Resilience

It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!
— Charles Dickens
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
— Charles Dickens
If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!
— Charles Dickens
Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
— Charles Dickens
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
My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.
— Charles Dickens
And from the death of each day's hope, another hope sprang up to live tomorrow.
— Charles Dickens
Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.
— Charles Dickens
Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as if most other sauce to wretched bread. Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meager children; and lovers, with such a word around then and before them, loved and hoped.
— Charles Dickens
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.
— Charles Dickens
settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual
— Charles Dickens
I wonder," said Mr. Lorry, pausing in his looking about, "that he keeps that reminder of his sufferings about him!" "And why wonder at that?" was the abrupt inquiry that made him start. It proceeded from Miss Pross, the wild red woman, strong of hand, whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover, and had since improved.
— Charles Dickens