Charles Dickens Quotes

• 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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  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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Your voice and music are the same to me.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Voice

  Charles Dickens (1852). “Christmas Books”, p.262

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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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• 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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• 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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• Trifles make the sum of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Classic, Trifles

  David Copperfield ch. 53 (1850)

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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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• 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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• 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

  Bricks, Honest, Trade

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• Keep up appearances whatever you do.

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Advice, Politics

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 11 (1844)

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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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• 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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• 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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• To a young heart everything is fun.

  Charles Dickens

  Fun, Heart, Enjoy Life

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