It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to… — 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
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. — 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
