Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for… — 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
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and… — 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
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds… — 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
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in… — 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
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have… — 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
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village… — 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
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank… — 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
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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