Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. Charles Dickens More Quotes by Charles Dickens More Quotes From Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. Charles Dickens waiting sea men I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. Charles Dickens humorous mind funny All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. Charles Dickens evoke confidence wonder Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. Charles Dickens papa potatoes literature The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. Charles Dickens healthy purpose way The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him. Charles Dickens taken spiritual attitude Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room. Charles Dickens wish listening men Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens saying-goodbye expectations life Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day! Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom records trials It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens nature summer spring This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in. Charles Dickens autism life world There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens reading writing book The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. Charles Dickens glasses cities men Change begets change. Charles Dickens begets change inspirational Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. Charles Dickens family giving blood 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 Dickens accomplished words-of-wisdom reality I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. Charles Dickens deny butterfly freedom Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. Charles Dickens blindness said love It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom intelligent men For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens good-morning time beauty
