Charles Dickens Quotes About Charity

• 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.

• Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Doors, Umpires

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

• But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Men, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

• Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

  Charles Dickens

  Scrooge, Charity, Mercy

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.33

• Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Marriage, Learning

  Charles Dickens (1993). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

• O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Growth

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2302, Delphi Classics

• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Tears, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

• There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

  Charles Dickens

  Charity, Excitement, Pleasure

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.161

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