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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Life
Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Dickens
Life, Littles, Helping

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Life
Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Charles Dickens
Life, Contentment, Cheerful

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens
Life, Strong, Truth
Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens
Life, Autism, World
Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.113, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens
Life, Saying Goodbye, Expectations
Charles Dickens (2012). “A Great Expectations in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography”, p.568, BookCaps Study Guides

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

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Charles Dickens
Life, Life Is, Grind
'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 64 (Mr Mantalini)

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens
Life, Moral, Existence
'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 9 (Mr Pecksniff)

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens
Life, Success, Men

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens
Life, Summer, Passion
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.12259, Delphi Classics

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens
Life, Children, Memories

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

Charles Dickens
Life, Holiday, Mind
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens
Life, Interesting, Watches
1843-4 Jonas Chuzzlewit. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.18.

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens
Life, Cells, Ivy
Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.70

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