I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in… — 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
"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night,… — 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
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Goswell Street was at his feet, Goswell Street was on his right hand — as far as the eye could reach, Goswell… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — 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
