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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Dickens
Family, Blood, Giving

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

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

How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Hate, Giving
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.196, Cosimo, Inc.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Charles Dickens
Giving, Tea, Cups
Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens
Pigs, Giving, Mind

The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.

Charles Dickens
Morning, Air, Giving
Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.837, Wordsworth Editions

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

Charles Dickens
Lying, Light, Giving
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Charles Dickens
Giving, Joy, Cry
Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.672, Xist Publishing

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens
Night, Giving, Church
Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Sir John Tenniel (1868). “Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son”, p.17

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Dickens
Death, Eye, Giving

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

Charles Dickens
Character, Winter, Giving
Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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