Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 2

• Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Improvement, Improving

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• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Relationship, Goodbye

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.22

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• Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

  Charles Dickens

  People, Enemy

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Adventures of Oliver Twist: Also, Pictures from Italy, and American Notes for General Circulation”, p.188

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• What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

  Charles Dickens

  Impossible, Possibility, Treats

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• The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Listening, Doe

  charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

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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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• Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Remembrance, Candle

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• One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Dust, Tears

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• Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Wisdom, Heart, Awareness

  Hard Times bk. 3, ch. 1 (1854)

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  Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Doors, Umpires

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

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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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• Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

  Charles Dickens

  Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery

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• Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

  Charles Dickens

  Done, Lost

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• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Contentment, Cheerful

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• Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Lasts, Remember

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10709, Delphi Classics

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• The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Rhythm, Shore

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• We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

  Charles Dickens

  Silence, Assertion

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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.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Clouds

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

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• The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

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  Mold, Different, Shapes

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• Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

  Charles Dickens

  Family, Blood, Giving

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• Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Deceit, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Tears, Stronger

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Great Expectations”, p.310, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

  Charles Dickens

  Wisdom, Expectations, Looks

  Great Expectations ch. 40 (1861)

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