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.
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 DICKENSWe forge the chains we wear in life.
CHARLES DICKENSTo a young heart everything is fun.
CHARLES DICKENSCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
CHARLES DICKENSOnce a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
CHARLES DICKENSLeast said, soonest mended.
CHARLES DICKENSTrue love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
CHARLES DICKENSIt’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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 DICKENSVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
CHARLES DICKENSMan cannot really improve himself without improving others.
CHARLES DICKENSFor not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.
CHARLES DICKENSThe shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
CHARLES DICKENSPapa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
CHARLES DICKENSDeath may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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