Charles Dickens

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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.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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!
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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.
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.
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.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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