I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Author
Charles Dickens
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About Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Charles DickensHappy, 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 ho…
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if…
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 ma…
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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.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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 ma…
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.
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 ma…
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if…
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.