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"42 Charles Dickens Quotes & Sayings

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Born: February 7, 1812. Died: June 9, 1870 | Writer |

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.

Change Solemly Spread Again
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Contemplate Existence Moral
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Christmas Heart Honor Keep
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heart Hurts Never Temper
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Aims Heart Always Devoted
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Anyone Burden Else Useless
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Head Heart Wisdom
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Between Constructed Construction Created
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Another Brave Communication Electric
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Ever Life Made Many
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Action World Moping Droning
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Activities Business Concerned Far
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Concentrate Determination Diligence Done
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Blessings Reflect Past Every
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Ask Butterflies Free Only
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Business First Men Other
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Credit Dressed Spirits Good
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Joy Meeting Pain Parting
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Beauties Changes Easy Every
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Arrangement Attire Great Seldom
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Better Heart Human Strings
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Brother Call Endurance Learn
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Creature Fact Human Mystery
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Day Others Self Wasted
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Emergency Life Safe Simple
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Grey Hairs Natural Property
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Bad Good Lawyers People
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Brings Children Existence Injustice
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Appetites Conquered Human Nature
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Backs Best Books Covers
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Contrast Dark Shadows Earth
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Fan Flame Friendship Pass
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Better Done Ever Far
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Answered Home Magician Name
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

China Cows Entirely Farm
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Coat Dignity Holiness Imagine
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great Melancholy Men Poor
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Civility Extended Money None
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Bleeds Dangerous Good Inwardly
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Charles Dickens Quotes & Sayings