Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 4

• The American woman is a monstrosity.

  Charles Dickens

  Monstrosity, American Woman

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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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• I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, My Heart

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.18029, Delphi Classics

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• Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

  Charles Dickens

  Vices, Excess, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens”, p.835, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Flower, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.353

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• I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Men, Brave

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.135

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• Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Kind, Worst

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• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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• The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

  Charles Dickens

  Angel, Words Of Wisdom, Shadow

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2608, Delphi Classics

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• A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

  Charles Dickens

  Sketches by Boz "Tales," ch. 3 (1839)

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• You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.345

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• A good thing can't be cruel.

  Charles Dickens

  Good Things, Cruelty

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.59

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• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Alcohol, Cleaning

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 49 (The Gentleman in the Small-clothes)

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• Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Surprise, Me Alone

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.71

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• In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Parenting, Expectations

  Great Expectations ch. 8 (1861)

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• All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

  Charles Dickens

  Confidence, Wonder, Evoke

  Charles Dickens (1859). “All the Year Round”, p.553

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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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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

  Charles Dickens

  Strength, Encouraging, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.648, Pan Macmillan

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• I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Two, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.255, The Planet

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• Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Hair, Age

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.183, Booklassic

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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Halloween, Creativity, Ideas

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• To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Honesty, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10568, Delphi Classics

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• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

  Charles Dickens

  Sorry, Rain, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

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