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.
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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.
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Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.
"My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside."
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.
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