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Day Quotes by Charles Dickens
- To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
- But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
- Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and…
- I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy…
- The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever…
- Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to…
- Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is…
- The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
- If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
- There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was…
- Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light…
- The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things…
- Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
- Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the…
- A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
- I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will…
- Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never…
- There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The…
- And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done--…
- Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of…
- The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established…
- And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his…
- It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is…
- Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion…
- And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying…
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