Daily quotes from the writings of Charles Dickens

Joined December 2012
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"I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart" #Dickens #Quote
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"I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart"
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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. #MerryChristmas
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"Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"
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"There is no disparity in marriage like the unsuitability of mind and purpose."
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"Every scratch in the scheme was a gnarled oak in the forest of difficulty, and I went on cutting them down, one after another"
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"Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, except for a solid reason."
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"It was difficult to believe that a night so long to me, could be short to anybody else."
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"Earnestness is what somebody must look for, to sustain him and improve him. Deep, downright, faithful earnestness."
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"Where my youthful confidence and warmth of heart had been...was now a waste, a ruin."
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"We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us. We must learn to play the act out. We must live misfortune down."
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"Lovers had loved before, and lovers would love again; but no lover had loved, might, could, would, or should ever love, as I loved Her."
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true
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"Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low."
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"There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you."
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"A multitude of people and yet solitude"
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“Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.”
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"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape" #CharlesDickens
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My personal all-time favorite Dickens quote
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"A very little key can open a very heavy door"
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