Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many

Charles Dickens
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ✨ Charles Dickens (1839). Sketches by Boz, p.172
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ✨ Charles Dickens (1839). Sketches by Boz, p.172

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