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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens
Wisdom, Heart, Awareness
Hard Times bk. 3, ch. 1 (1854)

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens
Pain, Teaching, Heart
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Dickens
Heart, Tears, Stronger
Charles Dickens (2014). “Great Expectations”, p.310, Jazzybee Verlag

To a young heart everything is fun.

Charles Dickens
Fun, Heart, Enjoy Life

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens
Sorry, Rain, Heart
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens
Love, Honesty, Heart
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.10568, Delphi Classics

There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Heart, Passionate
Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.430

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens
Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart
Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Thinking, Broken
"Fictional character: Miss Havisham". "Great Expectations" Episode #1.3, www.imdb.com. 2011.

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens
Children, Father, Heart
Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Boys, Clouds
Great Expectations ch. 44 (1861)

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens
Life, Flower, Heart
Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Heart, Cities
'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Charles Dickens
Inspiring, New Year, Heart
Charles Dickens (2004). “The Chimes (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.31, Sparklesoup LLC

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)

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens
Heart, Night, Cities
A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

Charles Dickens
Funny, Christmas, Heart
"A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Winning
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7985, Delphi Classics

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Men, Return
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1035, Delphi Classics

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Heart, Literature
"David Copperfield". Book by Charles Dickens, 1850.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Soul, Tears
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Thinking, Sensitive
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.32

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Thinking
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.223

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Faithful, World
Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.99, World Classic

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

Charles Dickens
Philosophical, Heart, Past
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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