New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take… — 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
You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
…that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a… — 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
And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you… — 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
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust… — 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
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither… — 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
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power. For the first time he felt that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Still, the Doctor walked among the terrors with a steady head. No man better known than he, in Paris at that day;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never made the least progress, however hard he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I could not help wondering in my own mind…how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“They were still looming at opposite ends of the perspective, each with an absurd pretence of not having the other on his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in… — 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
