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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

  Charles Dickens

  Yards, Links, Libertarian

  1843 A Christmas Carol, stave 1.

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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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• 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 contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

  Charles Dickens

  Spirit, Existence, Sweetness

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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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• I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Scrooge, Three

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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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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• 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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