Charles Dickens and Dissertations

February 7th is Charles Dickens’ birthday. Here are a few words of wisdom from the creator of Ebenezar Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Pip, Miss Havisham, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, & Future for dissertation students everywhere…

The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.
— Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
— Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

A very little key will open a very heavy door.
— Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

God bless us, every one.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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