Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Full-Private Number One in the Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life was Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT A GRAVE HAD OPENED IN MY ROAD OF LIFE, AND the gap it made in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine, who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You are part of my existence, part of myelf. You have been in every line I ever read, since I first came… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consideration… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“... in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much, and was in a fair way… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one, A few feet of cold earth, when life is done; A stone at the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was not a reckless manner, the manner in which he said these words aloud under the fast-sailing clouds, nor was it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
