Charles Dickens Quotes

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  Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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  I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

  Charles Dickens

  Suffering Pain, Broken, Expectations

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

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  A very little key will open a very heavy door.

  Charles Dickens

  Educational, Keys, Doors

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

  Charles Dickens

  Procrastination, Advice, Thieves

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.160, Penguin

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• Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Littles, Helping

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• Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Being Happy, Delight

  "Fictional character: Vincent Crummles". "Nicholas Nickleby", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• 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

  Love, Dream, Men

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• The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

  Charles Dickens

  Self Confidence, World, Conquer

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• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

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• We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Reading, Tire

  Charles Dickens (1914). “A Charles Dickens Birthday Book”

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• Grief never mended no broken bones.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Broken, Bones

  1836-7 Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

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• The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Firsts, Sun

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.294, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We forge the chains we wear in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Chains

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Creativity, Differences

  Charles Dickens (1906). “Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.”

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• The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Ordinary, Citizens

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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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• 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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• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Inspiring, Laughter

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

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• The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

  Charles Dickens

  Mold, Different, Shapes

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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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• Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: His Relatives, Friends and Enemies ...”, p.169

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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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• 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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