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Charles Dickens Inspirational Quotes (576)

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.
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All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.
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Marley was dead: to begin with.
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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
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It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.
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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase
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I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
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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.
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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 bring it down one day.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
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... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.
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Eccentricities of genius.
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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
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Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold
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I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
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