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Wilkie Collins Quotes

Wilkie Collins quotes about greatness

English Novelist January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889

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Wilkie Collins quote: "The small pulse of the life within me and the great heart of..."
The small pulse of the life within me and the great heart of th city around me seemed to be sinking in unison. Wilkie Collins
Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward. Wilkie Collins
I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am. Wilkie Collins
The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death. Wilkie Collins

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