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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens
Law, Evil, Doers
Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.101, Xist Publishing

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Charles Dickens
Evil, Unhappy, Ends
Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.308, Prestwick House Inc

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

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

Charles Dickens
Evil, Hatred, Vices
Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.52, Courier Corporation

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Charles Dickens
Evil, Lessons, May
Charles Dickens (1842). “Oliver Twist”, p.3

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

Charles Dickens
Men, Evil, Groups
Charles Dickens (2009). “Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

Charles Dickens
Passion, Men, Evil
Charles Dickens (2017). “Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Holiday Romance, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Christmas Stories, A Child’s Dream of a Star…”, p.1935, e-artnow

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

Charles Dickens
Eye, Hands, Evil
Charles Dickens (2014). “Hard Times”, p.120, Trajectory Inc

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