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I wear the chain I forged in life
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Responsibility
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Business
- Charity
Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
- Life & Death
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
- Education
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XIn context
- Character
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Character
- Pride
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 1In context
- Character
- Life & Death
‘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.’
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 15In context
- Advice
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIn context
- Character
- Pride
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIIIn context
- Charity
- Money
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book IV: Three Love Problems, Chapter XLIIIn context
- Character
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book VIII: Sunset and Sunrise, Chapter LXXIIIn context
- Courage
There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), FinaleIn context
- Character
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), FinaleIn context
- History
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IXIn context
- Money