Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

Thought For the Day: No One Is Useless In This World Who Lightens the Burdens of Another

Posted on January 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. “ – Charles Dickens

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Another, Burdens, Charles Dickens, LIghten, No One, Thought For the Day, Useless, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: My Advice Is To Never Do Tomorrow What You can Do Today. Procrastination Is the Thief of Time

Posted on February 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”- Charles Dickens

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Advice, Charles Dickens, Never, Procrastination, Thief, Thought For the Day, Time, Today, Tomorrow | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Reflect Upon Your Present Blessings – Which Every Man Has Many – Not On Your Past Misfortunes of Which All Men Have Some

Posted on December 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles Dickens, Many, Misfortune, Past, Present Blessings, Reflect, Some, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Have Known A Vast Quantity of Nonsense Talked About Bad Men Not Looking You In the Face. Don’t Trust That

Posted on February 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“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.” – Charles Dickens, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles Dickens, Conventional Idea, Countenance, Day, Dishonesty, Face, Known, Look, Quantity, Stare, Thought For the Day, Trust, Week | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Happy, Happy Christmas, That Can Win Us Back To the Delusions of Childish Days

Posted on December 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Away, Charles Dickens, Child, Christmas, Days, Delusions, Fireside, Happy, Miles, Old man, Pleasure, Quiet Home, Recall, Sailor, The Pickwick Papers, Thought For the Day, Transport, Traveller, Win, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought for the Day: I Will Honor Christmas In My Heart and Try To Keep It All the Year

Posted on December 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Honor, In My Heart, Keep It, Thought For the Day, Year | Leave a comment

Given the Dickens I’ve Known

Posted on June 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives? Who in the last 30 years? Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language. It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Alley Ways, Breach, Century, Charles Dickens, Childhood, Clarity, Classes, Common Cause, Days, Debt, Decade, Endure, English, Hope, Imprisonment, Industrial, Lawyer, Life, Masses, Misery, Morality, Novelist, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Reaches, Sentimentality, Severity, Society, Society's Contract, Squalor, Strife, Struck, Struggle, Tales, Westminster Abby | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Woman Is Lucky If She Is the Last Love of A Man

Posted on July 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“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

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles Dickens, First Love, Last Love, Lucky, Man, Thought For the Day, Woman | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: May Your Heart Never Harden, Your Temper Never Tire and May You Have A Touch That Never Hurts

Posted on March 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles Dickens, Harden, Heart, Hurt, Temper, Thought For the Day, Tire, Touch | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Honor Christmas With All Your Heart By Keeping It All Year

Posted on December 28, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas, Heart, Honor, Keep, Thought For the Day, Try, Year | Leave a comment