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Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

Charles Dickens
Compassion, Sick, Confusion
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.825, Cosimo, Inc.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens
Lying, Mean, Ambition
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.5760, Delphi Classics

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

Charles Dickens
Eye, Men, Thinking
Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.133, Prestwick House Inc

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

Charles Dickens
Men, Littles, Hats
1836-7 Pickwick Papers, ch.4.

Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

Charles Dickens
Christian, Regret, Mean
Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens
Uncles, Mean, Merry Christmas
Charles Dickens (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - A Christmas Carol”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

Charles Dickens
Heart, Men, Wicked
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.58

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Charles Dickens
Knows, Written
Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens
Caring, Thinking, Gentleman
Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.48

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

Charles Dickens
Thinking, Knowing, House
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.301

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Dickens
Crime, Victim, Young
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.116

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Dickens
Doors, Hands, Names
Charles Dickens (2015). “A Christmas Carol”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens
Thinking, Gone, Pieces
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.355

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

Charles Dickens
Husband, Lying, Heart
Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.348, Xist Publishing

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Dickens
Waiting, Devil, Ready

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Charles Dickens
Echoes, Listening, Answers

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

Charles Dickens
Littles, Cry, You Again

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens
Life, Summer, Passion
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.12259, Delphi Classics

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Charles Dickens
Poetry, Should
Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.44

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Dickens
Individual, Express Yourself, Circumstances
David Copperfield ch. 49 (1850)

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Dickens
Giving Up, Deep Water, Sea
Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.65, Quiet River Press LLC

So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

Charles Dickens
Lying, Party, Struggle
Charles Dickens (1862). “All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal”, p.330

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Charles Dickens
Men, Armor, Philosopher
Charles Dickens (1873). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.65

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

Charles Dickens
Compassion, Punishment, Vanity
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.3513, e-artnow

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Dickens
Hands, Feet, Office
Charles Dickens (1863). “David Copperfield”, p.276

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