The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSRelated Topics
Friendship
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSI had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
CHARLES DICKENSEverybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
CHARLES DICKENSNever,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
CHARLES DICKENSThe 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 DICKENSYou have been the last dream of my soul.
CHARLES DICKENSTake nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
CHARLES DICKENSVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
CHARLES DICKENSYes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.
CHARLES DICKENSCheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
CHARLES DICKENSFacts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
CHARLES DICKENSThe worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
CHARLES DICKENSLeast said, soonest mended.
CHARLES DICKENSA very little key will open a very heavy door.
CHARLES DICKENSPoetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
CHARLES DICKENSI 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