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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Charles Dickens
Love, Spiritual, Truth
Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.254, Broadview Press

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens
Home, Doors, Umpires
Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Charles Dickens
Men, Listening, Doe
charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens
Love, Friendship, Relationship

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens
Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

Charles Dickens
Ocean, Rhythm, Shore

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Dickens
Trying, Sometimes, Failing

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Dickens
Nature, Autumn, Giving
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Charles Dickens
Silence, Assertion

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Charles Dickens
Cat, Animal, Humanity

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens
Wisdom, Heart, Awareness
Hard Times bk. 3, ch. 1 (1854)

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Charles Dickens
Impossible, Possibility, Treats

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

Charles Dickens
Rain, Dust, Tears

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

Charles Dickens
Love, Believe, Bears
Charles Dickens (1871). “Works”, p.448

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens
Pain, Teaching, Heart
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Life
Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Law, People
Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.255

Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

Charles Dickens
Done, Lost

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Charles Dickens
Life, Contentment, Cheerful

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Charles Dickens
Travel, Home, Appreciate
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14099, Delphi Classics

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens
Past, Scrooge, Three
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Dickens
Lying, Deceit, Literature
Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations”, p.14, Booklassic

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Dickens
Promise, Tragedy, Add

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

Charles Dickens
Spring, Water, Flow

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Charles Dickens
Mold, Different, Shapes

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