Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 2

• Reflect upon your present blessings

  Charles Dickens

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.211

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

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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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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• 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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• Keep up appearances whatever you do.

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Advice, Politics

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 11 (1844)

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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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• Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

  Charles Dickens

  Family, Blood, Giving

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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

  Charles Dickens

  Silence, Assertion

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• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Contentment, Cheerful

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• Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

  Charles Dickens

  Impossible, Possibility, Treats

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• When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Water, Flow

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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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• The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Rhythm, Shore

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• In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

  Charles Dickens

  Promise, Tragedy, Add

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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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• Trifles make the sum of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Classic, Trifles

  David Copperfield ch. 53 (1850)

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• There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Wisdom, Heart, Awareness

  Hard Times bk. 3, ch. 1 (1854)

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• Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

  Charles Dickens

  Travel, Home, Appreciate

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14099, Delphi Classics

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• A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Funny, Family

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