The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens More Quotes by Charles Dickens More Quotes From Charles Dickens Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens literature funny people And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up! Charles Dickens grief loss grieving It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. Charles Dickens laughter humor inspirational Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. Charles Dickens heart father children The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. Charles Dickens biblical bible book Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? Charles Dickens ugly expectations helping Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens prosperity business soul It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments. Charles Dickens grieving two children Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. Charles Dickens powerful disappointment love The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom shadow angel We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances. Charles Dickens age faces feelings No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens words-of-wisdom beer book I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. Charles Dickens taken expectations two Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. Charles Dickens flames wine friendship I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Charles Dickens romantic-love expectations promise Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. Charles Dickens sacrifice love men Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves. Charles Dickens revelations intention men But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. Charles Dickens tears soul heart The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong. Charles Dickens lazy would-be evil When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. Charles Dickens laughing men people
