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There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Charles Dickens
Plenty, Stationery, Comfortable
Charles Dickens (2009). “Great Expectations: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens
Flower, Memorable, Thinking
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.62, The Planet

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

Charles Dickens
Strong, Great Expectations, Caught
Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.275

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens
Friendship, Wine, Flames
'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

Charles Dickens
Morning, Nature, Stars
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.333

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

Charles Dickens
Lonely, Nature, Night
Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

Charles Dickens
Men, Words Of Wisdom, Way
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.55

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

Charles Dickens
Suffering, Income, Cost

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Thinking, Sensitive
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.32

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens
Bible, Book, Biblical

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Charles Dickens
Character, People, Interesting
Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.415, Broadview Press

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Charles Dickens
Evil, Unhappy, Ends
Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.308, Prestwick House Inc

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Charles Dickens
Heaven, Suits, Burden
Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.163

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

Charles Dickens
Spiritual, Attitude, Taken

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens
Men, Brotherhood, Common
Charles Dickens (1850). “Stories from Household Words: The Miner's Daughters. Loaded Dice. Extraordinary Traveller. The Young Jew of Tunis.]”, p.126

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Daughter, Home
Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.30, Book House

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Charles Dickens
World, Affection, Guides
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: The mystery of Edwin Drood and Master Humphrey's clock”, p.9

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Dickens
Fashion, Clothes, Expectations
1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.19.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Dickens
Time, Son, Boys
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories”, p.441, Cosimo, Inc.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Dickens
Sorrow, Despair, Prodigious
"A Tale of Two Cities".

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

Charles Dickens
Toil, Genius, Flight
Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.71, Oxford University Press

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

Charles Dickens
Friendship, Christmas, New Year

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

Charles Dickens
Intelligent, Men, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.562, e-artnow

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Dickens
Nature, Flower, Sleep
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.70

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Thinking
Charles Dickens (1868). “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.223

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