Light Quotes by Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

— Charles Dickens

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

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... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in…

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The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere,…

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Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better…

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In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light…

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The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within…

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He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes…

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“But nature will smile though priests may frown, and next day the sun shone brightly, and on the next, and the next…

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“Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything…

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I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself…

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The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the…

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A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which…

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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before…

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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.…

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It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light.…

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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and…

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They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the…

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Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was…

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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches…

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What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of…

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and…

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You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first…

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“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are…

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I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water,…

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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its…

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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches…

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It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous…

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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have…

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With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a…

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So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can…

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The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and…

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Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever…

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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded…

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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the…

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The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to…

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I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long…

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