Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
CHARLES DICKENSFacts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
CHARLES DICKENSReflect upon your present blessings.
CHARLES DICKENSPoetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
CHARLES DICKENSTime and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
CHARLES DICKENSCheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
CHARLES DICKENSWe need never be ashamed of our tears.
CHARLES DICKENSWe can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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 DICKENSAll of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
CHARLES DICKENSMinds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
CHARLES DICKENSThere are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
CHARLES DICKENSThe ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
CHARLES DICKENSA day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
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 civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
CHARLES DICKENSReflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
CHARLES DICKENS