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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Charles Dickens
Lows, Involuntary, Homage
Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.114, Xist Publishing

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Reason, Staying
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.195, Penguin

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

Charles Dickens
Sunday, Coats, Week
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 524, 1895.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

Charles Dickens
Friday, Believe, Hero
David Copperfield ch. 1 (1850)

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Charles Dickens
Self, Expectations, Earth
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.254

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens
Literature, Civility
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.9847, Delphi Classics

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Charles Dickens
Grief, Loss, Grieving
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.151

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens
Funny, People, Literature
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.197

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Charles Dickens
Children, Blessing, Twists

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Laughter, Humor
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.64

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Dickens
Fitness, Attention, Biscuits

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Dickens
Light, Stage
Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.29

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Dream, Childhood
Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens
Love, Night, Reality
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8404, Delphi Classics

On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

Charles Dickens
Pain, Hands, Years
Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.121

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens
People, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7278, Delphi Classics

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Literature, Emotion
'Barnaby Rudge' (1841) ch. 22 (Mr Tappertit)

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Dickens
Men, Keys, Hair
Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

Your voice and music are the same to me.

Charles Dickens
Love, Voice
Charles Dickens (1852). “Christmas Books”, p.262

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Charles Dickens
Chains, Forged
A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Dickens
Mean, Love Is, Effort
Charles Dickens (2010). “Bleak House”, p.207, Broadview Press

The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

Charles Dickens
Mistake, Struggle, Two
Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.2, Jester House Publishing

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens
Love, Lying, Men
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.27

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

Charles Dickens
Land, Doubt, Trying

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Charles Dickens
Eye, Exercise, Cry
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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