A very little key will open a very heavy door.
CHARLES DICKENSA very little key will open a very heavy door.
CHARLES DICKENSThe worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
CHARLES DICKENSA day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
CHARLES DICKENSAsk no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
CHARLES DICKENSIt’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
CHARLES DICKENSA heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
CHARLES DICKENSFacts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
CHARLES DICKENSCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
CHARLES DICKENSI am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.
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 DICKENSRemember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
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 DICKENSLove, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
CHARLES DICKENSI have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
CHARLES DICKENSWhen you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.
CHARLES DICKENSPoetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
CHARLES DICKENS