Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Pain, Teaching, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

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• If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Law, People

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.255

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• Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

  Charles Dickens

  Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery

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• One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Dust, Tears

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• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

  Charles Dickens

  Trying, Sometimes, Failing

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• Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Deceit, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations”, p.14, Booklassic

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• The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Listening, Doe

  charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

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• I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Spiritual, Truth

  Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.254, Broadview Press

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• To a young heart everything is fun.

  Charles Dickens

  Fun, Heart, Enjoy Life

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• I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Scrooge, Three

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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• What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

  Charles Dickens

  Adversity, Camels, Lasts

  Charles Dickens (1855). “Household Words”, p.59

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• For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Parent, World

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.145

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• Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

  Charles Dickens

  Impossible, Possibility, Treats

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• Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Believe, Bears

  Charles Dickens (1871). “Works”, p.448

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• Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

  Charles Dickens

  People, Enemy

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Adventures of Oliver Twist: Also, Pictures from Italy, and American Notes for General Circulation”, p.188

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  Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Doors, Umpires

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

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• We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

  Charles Dickens

  Silence, Assertion

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• Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Lasts, Remember

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10709, Delphi Classics

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Giving

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

  Charles Dickens

  Yards, Links, Libertarian

  1843 A Christmas Carol, stave 1.

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• Love her, love her, love her! If she favours 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

  Heart, Tears, Stronger

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Great Expectations”, p.310, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Trifles make the sum of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Classic, Trifles

  David Copperfield ch. 53 (1850)

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