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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Dickens
Past, Influence, Vain
Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Death, Witty
Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 25 (1844)

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Dickens
Ideas, House, Stories
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

Charles Dickens
Blow, Clouds, Wind
CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Death, Book
A Tale of Two Cities bk. 3, ch. 15 (1859)

A man must take the fat with the lean.

Charles Dickens
Men, Fats, Resignation
David Copperfield ch. 51 (1850)

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Dickens
Country, Love You, Home
Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

Charles Dickens
People, Everyday, Passing Away
Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.92, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens
Words Of Wisdom, Speech, Earnest
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Soul, Tears
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Charles Dickens
Feelings, Littles, Strange
Charles Dickens (1848). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster ... Engraved by T. Williams”, p.82

The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose.

Charles Dickens
Healthy, Purpose, Way
"Household Words".

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

Charles Dickens
Thinking, Hiking, Feet And Walking

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens
Children, Sea, Play
Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.102, B Times

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Charles Dickens
Love, Sympathy, Eye
Charles Dickens (1866). “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.296

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Children, Sometimes
Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.111

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

Charles Dickens
Death, Universal Truth, Universal

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Charles Dickens
Giving, Tea, Cups
Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

Charles Dickens
Nature, Autumn, Jewels
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Children, Humorous
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.65

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Charles Dickens
Regret, Hard Times, Long
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7501, Delphi Classics

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

Charles Dickens
Cities, Reflecting Upon, Profound
A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Charles Dickens
Forgiveness, Forgiving, Done
Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

Charles Dickens
Moon, Night, Clouds
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7065, Delphi Classics

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Charles Dickens
Purple, Rags, Doe
Charles Dickens (2009). “Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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