It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves Charles Dickens More Quotes by Charles Dickens More Quotes From Charles Dickens Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. Charles Dickens guarantees-that money inspirational It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens greatness truth men For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. Charles Dickens christmas sometimes children All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature. Charles Dickens food morning funny Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Charles Dickens brightness sadness faces The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. Charles Dickens brotherhood common men Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens fire hair writing No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused Charles Dickens regret space opportunity Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Charles Dickens coats holiness people The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty. Charles Dickens mold shapes different He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten. Charles Dickens air joy long Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. Charles Dickens existence moral life things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up Charles Dickens turns expected Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. Charles Dickens fashion literature men There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. Charles Dickens physiognomy connections taken No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. Charles Dickens woods grain expectations Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. Charles Dickens begets oppression may I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest. Charles Dickens success-in-life care attention A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens reflecting-upon cities profound There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. Charles Dickens unhappy mind love
