“The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace? — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — 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
“Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all: I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The day wore on, and all these bright colours subsided, and assumed a quieter tint, like young hopes softened down by time,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place… — 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
... 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
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
