I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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 DICKENSI have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
CHARLES DICKENSFacts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
CHARLES DICKENSThere is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENSTo 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 DICKENSI am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.
CHARLES DICKENSA day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
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 DICKENSThere are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
CHARLES DICKENSMan cannot really improve himself without improving others.
CHARLES DICKENSVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
CHARLES DICKENSTrue love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
CHARLES DICKENSThe worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
CHARLES DICKENSA very little key will open a very heavy door.
CHARLES DICKENSWe can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
CHARLES DICKENSSuffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
CHARLES DICKENS