Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 3

• Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

  Charles Dickens

  Wisdom, Expectations, Looks

  Great Expectations ch. 40 (1861)

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• The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Tongue, Habit

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces”, p.154

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• Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

  Charles Dickens

  Done, Lost

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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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• 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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• 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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• Keep up appearances whatever you do.

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Advice, Politics

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 11 (1844)

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• Reflect upon your present blessings

  Charles Dickens

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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

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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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• 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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• There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

  Charles Dickens

  Sincere, Substitutes, Ardent

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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• This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Autism, World

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.113, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Least said, soonest mended

  Charles Dickens

  Said

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.379, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

  Charles Dickens

  Failure, Men, Teach

  "Little Dorrit".

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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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• Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

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• There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Strong, Truth

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

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• You have been the last dream of my soul.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Cities, Soul

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.95

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• New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

  Charles Dickens

  Mind, Colour, New Thought

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.762, Penguin

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• It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Easy

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.178, Kartindo.com

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• We must scrunch or be scrunched.

  Charles Dickens

  Action

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.304

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• I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

  Charles Dickens

  World, Surprise, Enough

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.115, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

  Charles Dickens

  Spirit, Existence, Sweetness

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• Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Remembrance, Candle

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