Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love #our-mutual-friend #love

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#survival #life

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #made #many #together #welded

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expression #eyes #hypocrisy #hypocrisy

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. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#happiness #pip #death

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#change

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#baby #love

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #humor

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #humor