She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day… Love is not a passion of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Drink with me, my dear, said Mr. Weller. Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have said that they were truly happy; and without strong affection and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think… — 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
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these… — 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… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well, it was really very pleasant to see how things lazily adapted themselves to purposes. Here was this Mr Gridley, a man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing… — 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
“how there were echoes all about her, sweet in her ears, of the many times her father had told her that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her.” — 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
“I don't know what she was—anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a… — 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
“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
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
I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — 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
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