Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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JustShare Lecture: A Dickens of a Time: Lessons in Social Transformation from a National Treasure
St Mary-le-Bow Church, London (UK)
Wed, 18th April 2012 - Wed, 18th April 2012
All are welcome at this lecture which forms part of the 2012 JustShare Lectures on christian social and political thought. The Rt Revd Adrian Newman, Bishop of Stepney, will explore the influence of Charles Dickens on social transformation in Dickens' own time, and what we might learn from Dickens today. This lecture is free and open to all, but please reserve your free place. Fairtrade refreshments will be served afterwards, with thanks to La Riojana.
