Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1812
inspirational happiness thank-you
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
love inspirational life
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
love inspirational family
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
inspirational communication expectations
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.
inspirational humble home
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.
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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
inspirational mean aunt
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
inspirational play suffering
We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!
inspirational children kids
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
inspirational time cities
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
inspirational stars lying
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.