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| Charles Dickens
"Gracious heavens!" he cries out, leaping up and catching hold of his hair, "what's this? Print!" "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, "... in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." "Wal'r, my boy," replied the captain; "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words: "May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!" When found, make a note of." A boy's story is the best that is ever told. A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. A man in public life expects to be sneered at – it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Do you spell it with a V or a W?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and prism. 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! Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. He assigned it to regions more than tropical. He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. He would make a lovely corpse. He's tough, ma'am – tough is J.B.; tough and de-vilish sly. Heaven knows we need never be afraid of our tears, for they are the rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. (from 'Great Expectations') Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. I do not know the american gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. 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. I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends? I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. 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. Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. 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-humor. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! and so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!" It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Lizzie! I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Minerva House... was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. 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. Never sign a valentine with your own name. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. Perhaps it is a good thing to have an unsound hobby ridden hard; for it is sooner ridden to death. Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy. That's a Blazing strange answer. The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. The law is [sic] a ass - a idiot.The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making. 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. The wind's in the east. ... I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. We forge the chains we wear in life. We start from the Mother's arms and we run to the Dustshovel. When found, make a note of. With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. |
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