Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
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"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."
Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."
Charles Dickens
"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them."
Charles Dickens Hard Times
"I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"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 wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"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
"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. Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
"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
"“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”"
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away."
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
Charles Dickens
"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society."
Charles Dickens
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
Charles Dickens
"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."
Charles Dickens
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