I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us?… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused… — 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 Image
... 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 Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
