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Charles Dickens Quotes

Let’s celebrate Charles Dickens’s birthday with some wonderful Charles Dickens Quotes. Enjoy!

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

boys storyCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Best of Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

silly honest kind Emerson quotes“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

best of ralph waldo emerson quotes“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“To laugh often and love much:
To win respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give one’s self;
To leave the world a little better,
Whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch,
Or redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm
And sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier
Because you have lived…
This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes