 Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Category Archives: Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens – To conceal from those to whom I am attached
| To 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 Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – Love of a cat
| What greater gift than the love of a cat.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – I have tried to do with all my heart
| Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – Never be ashamed of tears
| Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – The quality of attention
| The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study and in every pursuit is the quality of attention. My own invention, or imagination, such as it is, I can most truthfully assure you, would never have served me as it has but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – The little world in which children have their existence
| In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – Every traveler has a home
| Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – To do what I have done
| I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – A heart that never hardens
| Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Charles Dickens – Losing sight of what is natural
| Men talk of nature as an abstract thing, and lose sight of what is natural while they do so.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
