En zo, bij dag en bij nacht, onder zon en sterrenlicht, over heuvelen en door eenzame vlakten, over land en zee trekkend, gaande en komende zoals het lot wil, steeds andere mensen ontmoetend, zo trekken wij, rusteloze reizigers door de pelgrimstocht die het leven heet.
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swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick... CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. CHARLES DICKENS In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi... CHARLES DICKENS Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that ... CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated.... CHARLES DICKENS Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last CHARLES DICKENS Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain... CHARLES DICKENS Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge... CHARLES DICKENS Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d... CHARLES DICKENS Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! CHARLES DICKENS There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. CHARLES DICKENS I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. CHARLES DICKENS The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. CHARLES DICKENS The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. CHARLES DICKENS Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. CHARLES DICKENS Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. CHARLES DICKENS Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. CHARLES DICKENS We forge the chains we wear in life. CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. CHARLES DICKENS It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ... CHARLES DICKENS The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ... CHARLES DICKENS [Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee... CHARLES DICKENS In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,... CHARLES DICKENS The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth... CHARLES DICKENS Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli... CHARLES DICKENS Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't... CHARLES DICKENS Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t... CHARLES DICKENS He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pick... CHARLES DICKENS The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but... CHARLES DICKENS I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. CHARLES DICKENS Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, le... CHARLES DICKENS That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. CHARLES DICKENS The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill
your pipe with that 'ere reflection... CHARLES DICKENS Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli... CHARLES DICKENS He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h... CHARLES DICKENS Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. CHARLES DICKENS She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. CHARLES DICKENS There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ... CHARLES DICKENS "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison." CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer... CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb... CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one! CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat... CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man... CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug. CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta... CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc... CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly. CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i... CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are hi... CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." CHARLES DICKENS