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There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

Charles Dickens
Nature, Attitude, Men

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Charles Dickens
Knowing, Odds, Mind
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.267

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Charles Dickens
Eye, Home, Dark
Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Morning, Food
Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition”, p.423, ReadHowYouWant.com

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Sky, Done
Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.42, Top Five Books LLC

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens
Real, Heart, Optimistic
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

Charles Dickens
Morning, Rain, Night
Charles Dickens (2016). “Oliver Twist”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Charles Dickens
Moon, Light, Tree
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.321, e-artnow

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

Charles Dickens
Self, Words Of Wisdom, Crowns
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.254

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Charles Dickens
Men, Words Of Wisdom, Daylight
Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.181

Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

Charles Dickens
Nephew, Christmas Carol, Rich
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.4

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Charles Dickens
Thinking, Diversity, Different
'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 19 (Mrs Gamp)

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Honesty, Hands
Charles Dickens (1873). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.162

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Charles Dickens
Evil, Lazy, Would Be
Charles Dickens, Michael D. Aeschliman (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.71, Ignatius Press

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Faith, Mother
Charles Dickens, Ich ([pseud.].) (1856). “Immortelles from Charles Dickens”, p.112

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.

Charles Dickens
Fire, Feelings, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.79

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Children, Kids
"The Old Curiosity Shop".

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Charles Dickens
Water, Listening, May

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Dickens
Wise, Words Of Wisdom, Godmother
Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.427, Xist Publishing

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Charles Dickens
Stories, Wonderful, Marley

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Expectations, Morality
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.61

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens
Words Of Wisdom, Trials, Records
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces”, p.202

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Dickens
Good Friend, Trying, Disability
Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.328

Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.

Charles Dickens
Weed, Nature, Wall
Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more”, p.3653, e-artnow

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Charles Dickens
Nature, Men, Self
Charles Dickens (1849). “Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc”, p.6

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