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Ghost of the Future, he exclaimed, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company,

"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"

Charles Dickens
Heart, Men, Bears
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.74

Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

Charles Dickens
Love, Reality, Soul
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.532

"I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit-"and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself-that wot my opinions respectin' flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time."

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Heart
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.296, Penguin

On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

Charles Dickens
Funny, Summer, Powerful
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.57

The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Revenge, Humorous
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.60

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Charles Dickens
Words Of Wisdom, Littles, Captains
Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.328

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

Charles Dickens
Heart, Words Of Wisdom, Persons
Charles Dickens (1854). “Hard Times”, p.264

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Charles Dickens
Dumb, Words Of Wisdom, Injustice And Oppression
Charles Dickens (2006). “Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

Charles Dickens
Heart, Air, Knives
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.106

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens
Jobs, Words Of Wisdom, Deception
Charles Dickens (1873). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.477

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens
People, Words Of Wisdom, Want
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.69

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Charles Dickens
Real, Words Of Wisdom, Quality
Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.107

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens
People, Words Of Wisdom, Selfishness
Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.127

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Charles Dickens
Feelings, Words Of Wisdom, Matter
Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.290

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens
Dust, Two, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Charles Dickens
Thinking, Words Of Wisdom, Secret
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.345

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens
Thinking, Greed, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.538

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.

Charles Dickens
Struggle, Men, Discovery
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

Charles Dickens
Class, Words Of Wisdom, World
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.307

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Charles Dickens
Attitude, Ignorance, Littles
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.20

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Charles Dickens
Loneliness, House, Kitten
Charles Dickens (1850). “Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People ; with a Frontispiece by George Cruikshank”, p.16

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Charles Dickens
Believe, Party, Sarcasm
Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.280, Xist Publishing

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

Charles Dickens
Wall, Eye, Iron
Charles Dickens (1875). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.426

We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

Charles Dickens
Book, Law, Age
"The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

Charles Dickens
Dog, Children, Wife
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.177

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