"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." ~Charles Dickens
"A multitude of people, and yet, a solitude." ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“A new heart for a New Year, always!” ~Charles Dickens
"A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away–the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us–is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow." ~Charles Dickens
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!" ~from "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) by Charles Dickens
“And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at itself and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.” ~Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Anything for a quiet life, as the man said, when he took the situation at the lighthouse." ~Charles Dickens
"Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation." ~Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with." ~Charles Dickens
"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay." ~Charles Dickens
"Each season has its own beauty." ~Charles Dickens
"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering." ~Charles Dickens
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." ~Charles Dickens
"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
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” ~Charles Dickens
"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness." ~Charles Dickens
"I have bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape." ~Charles Dickens
“...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” ~Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ~from GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens
"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul " ~Charles Dickens
"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither up.
If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you.
If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you.
A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter!
Sorrow and shame upon your head!
Ruin upon all belonging to you!" ~Charles Dickens (Dombey and Son)
"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither up.
If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you.
If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you.
A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter!
Sorrow and shame upon your head!
Ruin upon all belonging to you!" ~Charles Dickens (Dombey and Son)
Photo: The Blue Mountains Range
Mount Victoria NSW
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ~Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times (for law-abiding citizens), it was the worst of times (for criminals), it was the age of wisdom (for the open-minded), it was the age of foolishness (for those hopelessly biased),… " ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,' said Scrooge. 'But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me." ~from A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens
“Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.” ~Charles Dickens
"My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time." ~Charles Dickens
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." ~Charles Dickens
"Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart." ~Charles Dickens
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. And it just may be by listening that we lighten another's load." ~Charles Dickens
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him." ~from DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~Charles Dickens
"The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become." ~Charles Dickens
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” -from "Nicholas Nickleby" By Charles Dickens
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." ~Charles Dickens
"The sun, the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man - burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-colored glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray." ~Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.” ~Charles Dickens on Wind
"It was the best of times (for law-abiding citizens), it was the worst of times (for criminals), it was the age of wisdom (for the open-minded), it was the age of foolishness (for those hopelessly biased),… " ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,' said Scrooge. 'But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me." ~from A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens
“Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.” ~Charles Dickens
"My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time." ~Charles Dickens
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." ~Charles Dickens
"Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart." ~Charles Dickens
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. And it just may be by listening that we lighten another's load." ~Charles Dickens
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him." ~from DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~Charles Dickens
"The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become." ~Charles Dickens
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” -from "Nicholas Nickleby" By Charles Dickens
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." ~Charles Dickens
"The sun, the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man - burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-colored glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray." ~Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.” ~Charles Dickens on Wind
“The year end brings no greater pleasure than the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.” ~Charles Dickens
"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk." ~Charles Dickens
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." ~Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer
“Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.” ~Charles Dickens
"To a young heart, everything is fun." ~Charles Dickens
"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk." ~Charles Dickens
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart." ~Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer
“Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.” ~Charles Dickens
"To a young heart, everything is fun." ~Charles Dickens
"What greater gift than the love of a cat?" ~Charles Dickens
"What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!" ~from The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) by Charles Dickens
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried will all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. In great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest." ~Charles Dickens
"You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your Uncle George was living; much less when he's dead." ~Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit from Everyman's Library
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"What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!" ~from The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) by Charles Dickens
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried will all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. In great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest." ~Charles Dickens
"You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your Uncle George was living; much less when he's dead." ~Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit from Everyman's Library
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