Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
Interpretation
Seeking revenge often takes time and patience, which is a natural part of its process.
This quote by Charles Dickens reflects on the nature of vengeance and retribution, suggesting that these desires and actions are not immediate or straightforward. Instead, they require time, implying that the pursuit of revenge can be a complex and lengthy emotional journey that ultimately may lead to further consequences.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the futility of revenge during a conflict resolution seminar.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
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.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.
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