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“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens
,
Nicholas Nickleby
“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“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
“if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
,
The Old Curiosity Shop
“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
“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
“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
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“No one is useless in this world . . . who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“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
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“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
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Nothing that we do, is done in vain.”
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“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
“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
“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 good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”
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 had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“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
“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
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“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
“He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my...”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“There are some upon this earth of yours . . . who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”
Charles Dickens
,
Bleak House
“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
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