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Charles Dickens Quotes

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world Picture Quote #1

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets Picture Quote #1

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? Picture Quote #1

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me Picture Quote #1

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man Picture Quote #1

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him Picture Quote #1

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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out Picture Quote #1

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes Picture Quote #1

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind Picture Quote #1

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset Picture Quote #1

And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty Picture Quote #1

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples Picture Quote #1

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A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others Picture Quote #1

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade Picture Quote #1

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not Picture Quote #1

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me Picture Quote #1

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may Picture Quote #1

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries Picture Quote #1

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And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire Picture Quote #1

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning Picture Quote #1

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man’s opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music Picture Quote #1

How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don’t ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me Picture Quote #1

There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat Picture Quote #1

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good Picture Quote #1

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I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it Picture Quote #1

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life Picture Quote #1

... in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker Picture Quote #1

People like us don’t go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are Picture Quote #1

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, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea Picture Quote #1

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee Picture Quote #1

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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world (Charles Dickens Quotes) It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets (Charles Dickens Quotes) Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? (Charles Dickens Quotes) I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me (Charles Dickens Quotes) A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man (Charles Dickens Quotes) The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him (Charles Dickens Quotes) Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out (Charles Dickens Quotes) Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes (Charles Dickens Quotes) My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind (Charles Dickens Quotes) He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset (Charles Dickens Quotes) And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty (Charles Dickens Quotes) Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples (Charles Dickens Quotes) A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others (Charles Dickens Quotes) Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade (Charles Dickens Quotes) Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not (Charles Dickens Quotes) We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me (Charles Dickens Quotes) But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may (Charles Dickens Quotes) Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries (Charles Dickens Quotes) And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire (Charles Dickens Quotes) Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning (Charles Dickens Quotes) I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man’s opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music (Charles Dickens Quotes) How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don’t ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me (Charles Dickens Quotes) There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat (Charles Dickens Quotes) Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good (Charles Dickens Quotes) I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it (Charles Dickens Quotes) This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life (Charles Dickens Quotes) ... in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker (Charles Dickens Quotes) People like us don’t go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are (Charles Dickens Quotes) 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, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea (Charles Dickens Quotes) I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee (Charles Dickens Quotes)

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