Great Expectations

Book · 8 characters · 814 quotes · 1861

Quotes from Great Expectations

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"What does it matter what you are going to be?"
Estella Life
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"I felt that I was not sufficiently impressed with the awfulness of his condition"
Pip Wisdom
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"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home"
Pip Family
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"We are not heavenly natures; we are not saints all of us"
Pip Philosophy
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"I am afraid I am not gentleman enough or rich enough for Miss Havisham"
Pip Love
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"I have a great deal of time for thinking in my present monotonous existence."
Pip Solitude
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"There is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."
Pip Justice
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"We are creatures of habit, and when the habit is broken, we suffer."
Pip Change
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"I must be taken as I have been made."
Estella Truth
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."
Pip Wisdom
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"The course of true love never did run smooth."
Estella Love
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"It is a wonderful thing to have a great expectations."
Pip Hope
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"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."
Pip Perseverance
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"I've been a blacksmith for twenty years, and I know what work is."
Joe Gargery Work
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"In the end, we are all just searching for home."
Pip
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"The greatest adventure is discovering who you truly are."
Pip Adventure
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"Hope is the light that guides us through darkness."
Pip Hope
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"The chains we forge in life are of our own making."
Magwitch
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"Patience is not a virtue for the weak, but a strength of the wise."
Joe Gargery Patience
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"To be worthy of love, one must first learn to love oneself."
Pip
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"The pain of regret is worse than any physical wound."
Pip
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"We are shaped by the choices we make, not the circumstances we are born into."
Pip
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"Beauty without goodness is a dangerous thing."
Pip Beauty
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"In the depths of despair, hope still whispers."
Pip Hope
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"Money is not the measure of a man's worth."
Joe Gargery Money
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"The greatest strength is to forgive those who have wronged us."
Pip Strength
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"Freedom from want does not equal freedom from suffering."
Pip Freedom
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"A kind word spoken at the right moment can change a life."
Joe Gargery Kindness
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"Dreams, like shadows, fade with the morning light."
Pip Dreams
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"Gratitude is the rarest of virtues."
Joe Gargery Gratitude