Excerpts from hard times

“How could you give me life, and take from me

all the inappreciable things that raise it from the
state of conscious death? Where are the graces
of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my
heart? What have you done, oh, Father, what
have you done with the garden that should have
bloomed once, in this great wilderness here?
Said Louisa as she touched her heart.”

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing

else, and root out everything else. You can
only form the minds of reasoning animals
upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any
service to them. This is the principle on
which I bring up my own children, and this
is the principle on which I bring up these
children.
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a
wisdom of the heart.”
“How could you give me life, and take from me
all the inappreciable things that raise it from the
state of conscious death? Where are the graces
of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my
heart? What have you done, oh, Father, what
have you done with the garden that should have
bloomed once, in this great wilderness here?
Said Louisa as she touched her heart.”
“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and
make the best of us and not the worst.”
“She was the most wonderful woman for
prowling about the house. How she got from
one story to another was a mystery beyond
solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so
highly connected, was not to be suspected of
dropping over the banisters or sliding down
them, yet her extraordinary facility of
locomotion suggested the wild idea.”

― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys

and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are
wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out
everything else. You can only form the minds of
reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will
ever be of any service to them.”

― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

 “He thought of the number of girls and women
she had seen marry, how many homes with
children in them she had seen grow up around
her, how she had contentedly pursued her own
lone quite path-for him.

“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns;
there seemed, however, to have been a
misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case,
whereby somebody else had become possessed
of his roses, and he had become possessed of
somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own.”
“It is known, to the force of a single pound
weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the
calculators of the National Debt can tell me the
capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for
patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition
of virtue into vice, or the reverse.”