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“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens
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Nicholas Nickleby
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts . . . she is proud.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
,
The Old Curiosity Shop
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“There is prodigious strength . . . in sorrow and despair.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and...”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”
Charles Dickens
,
Nicholas Nickleby
“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“No one is useless in this world . . . who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“women can always put things in fewest words.—Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”
Charles Dickens
,
The Old Curiosity Shop
“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
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