I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace,... - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"
"He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner."
". . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . ."
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."
"They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances."