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Things Quotes by Charles Dickens
- If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to…
- Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
- 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…
- Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil,…
- Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories,…
- I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
- How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are…
- 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--…
- We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much…
- You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."…
- But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with…
- It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so…
- Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
- 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…
- But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
- While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts,…
- things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
- He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his…
- It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so…
- The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle