Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles DickensTags: blessings reflection gratefulness misfortunes
every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Charles DickensTags: humor
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.
Charles DickensI hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Charles DickensTags: good-and-evil
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles DickensHave a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles DickensTags: literature
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles DickensEvery traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Charles DickensTags: homecoming
We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.
Charles DickensWith that, she pounced upon me, like an eagle on a lamb, and my face was squeezed into wooden bowls in sinks, and my head was put under taps of water-butts, and I was soaped, and kneaded, and towelled, and thumped, and harrowed, and rasped, until I really was quite beside myself. (I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.)
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