Charles Dickens Quotes About Struggle

• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Struggle, Years

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.305, Penguin

• The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Mistake, Struggle, Two

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.2, Jester House Publishing

• Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

  Charles Dickens

  Hope, Struggle, Essence

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.228

• So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Party, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (1862). “All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal”, p.330

• 'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Believe, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.

• Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Struggle, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1848). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation”, p.295

• It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.

  Charles Dickens

  Struggle, Men, Discovery

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

• How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

  Charles Dickens

  Religious, Struggle, Blessed

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.310, Pan Macmillan

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