“My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate… — 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
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
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have… — 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 have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Dare I hint at that worse time when, strung together somewhere in great black space, there was a flaming necklace, or ring,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression… — 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
A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen… — 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
“In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a… — 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 has been a time since when I have wondered whether, if the life before her could have been revealed to me… — 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
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But the man continuing to exclaim, "Down, Evremonde!" the face of Evremonde is for a moment turned towards him. Evremonde then sees… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something… — 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
It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“This,' opening another door, 'is my chamber. I read here when the family suppose I have retired to rest. Sometimes I injure… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the… — 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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