Quotes for English Learners
Quotes by
Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens :
Best and worst times It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens |
time
Happy Christmas Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens |
holiday
I loved her I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens |
love
In earnest Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens |
life
Keeping it all the year I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens |
holiday
Laughter and good humor There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens |
humor
Learning endurance The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens |
strength
Lightening the burdens of another No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens |
generosity
Loved before it exists The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens |
creativity
Purchasing civility The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens |
money
Succession of changes 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 |
time
The simple truth There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens |
truth
To be free I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens |
freedom
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