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Character in Great Expectations From: Great Expectations

Protagonist and narrator; an orphan with great expectations

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"I should have been more cautious."
Wisdom
"He lived only in himself."
Solitude
"I believe her to be without a heart."
Love
"The past cannot be altered."
Wisdom
"I had thrown myself upon the breast of the river."
"My childhood's despair could not survive her presence."
Hope
"I am not myself but a reflection of expectation."
"I am afraid I am not quite so gentlemanly as I could wish to be"
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart"
Perseverance
"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home"
Family
"I have a great expectation that something is going to happen"
Hope
"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right"
Courage
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching"
Education
"I feel as if I am wasting the precious hours"
Time
"I felt that I had been growing a considerable beard in the course of the last few days"
Humor
"I was not a happy boy; I was not a happy man"
Happiness
"The very first paper I saw in the pile was a note from Biddy"
Relationships
"I am not at all in my proper state of mind"
"I thought of all that I owed to Joe, and how little I had made of my opportunities"
Gratitude
"The freshness of her beauty was like a charm"
Beauty
"I had been thrown among some very rough people"
Change
"Ambition is a comprehensive word"
Motivation
"It is not what we do which troubles our conscience"
Faith
"I have never been fortunate enough to know much of my parents"
Family
"She gave me a look I did not understand"
Relationships
"My heart was beating violently"
Fear
"I had got into a state of most singular confusion"
"The love which had consumed me had been noble and true"
Love
"I resolved that the time had come to strengthen my mind"
Perseverance
"I perceived I was yet unknown to him"