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Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Effort
Charles Dickens (2015). “Oliver Twist, Volume 3 (of 3) (Illustrations)”, p.21, RICHARD BENTLEY

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens
Real, Heart, Optimistic
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

Charles Dickens
Lying, Heart, Thinking
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.221

He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Should Have, Eggs
Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.561, Wordsworth Editions

Have a heart that never hardens

Charles Dickens
Heart
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Men, Compassion
'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 47 (on the death of Jo)

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

Charles Dickens
Heart, My Heart
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.18029, Delphi Classics

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Mean, Doubt
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.267

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Charles Dickens
Hope, Heart, Lovely

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

Charles Dickens
Uncles, Heart, Dark
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

Charles Dickens
Love, Valentine, Heart

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Ice, Miss Havisham
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.436

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens
Heart, Lips, My Heart
CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.222

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham

Charles Dickens
Heart, Pride, Missing

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Merry Christmas, History
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

Charles Dickens
Inspiration, Heart, Humility
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Heart, Hands

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Violent, Spooky
Charles Dickens (2015). “Bleak House”, p.503, Xist Publishing

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Angel, Boys
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.24

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

Charles Dickens
Heart, Men, Wicked
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.58

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

Charles Dickens
Husband, Lying, Heart
Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.348, Xist Publishing

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Heaven, May

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

Charles Dickens
Selfish, Heart, Character
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.54

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

Charles Dickens
Philosophical, Heart, Men
Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.4045, e-artnow

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

Charles Dickens
Heart, Eye, Gold
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.249

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