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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.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens
Love, Inspirational, Family
"Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Charles Dickens
Love, Dream, Men

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens
Love, Creativity, Differences
Charles Dickens (1906). “Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.”

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

Charles Dickens
Love, Teacher, Wonderful
Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.774, Cosimo, Inc.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Charles Dickens
Love, Spiritual, Truth
Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.254, Broadview Press

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens
Love, Friendship, Relationship

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

Charles Dickens
Love, Believe, Bears
Charles Dickens (1871). “Works”, p.448

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Charles Dickens
Love, Funny, Family

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens
Love, Mean, Men
Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.345

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

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens
Love, Christmas, Education
A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens
Love, Dream, Mean

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens
Love, Powerful, Disappointment
Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.392

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens
Love, Giving Up, Real
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.198, The Planet

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens
Love, Night, Reality
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8404, Delphi Classics

Your voice and music are the same to me.

Charles Dickens
Love, Voice
Charles Dickens (1852). “Christmas Books”, p.262

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens
Love, Lying, Men
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.27

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

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens
Love, Mind, Unhappy
Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.564, Wordsworth Editions

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Charles Dickens
Love, Sacrifice, Men
Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.143, Top Five Books LLC

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Charles Dickens
Love, Said, Blindness
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7813, Delphi Classics

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Charles Dickens
Love, Sympathy, Eye
Charles Dickens (1866). “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.296

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

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