“ Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! ”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | A Christmas Carol |
| Topic | usefulness regret |
| Date | 1843 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm |
Context
““ Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed, ” cried the phantom, “ not to know, that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I! ” “ But you were always a good man of business, Jacob, ” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
“ Business! ” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again.” source
“ Business! ” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again.” source
