I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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Quotes by Charles Dickens
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There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
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.
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.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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.
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