Reflect on your present blessings - of which every man has many.
--Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many
- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
--Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires,
a touch that never hurts.
--Charles Dickens
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
--Charles Dickens
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well,
if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
May that be truly said of us, and all of us!
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
--Charles Dickens
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions
of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth,
and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
--Charles Dickens
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our
limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek;
bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes;
grouped everything and everyone round the Chrismtas fire,
and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.
--Charles Dickens
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should.
We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -
the longer, the better - from the great boarding school
where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates,
to take, and give a rest.
--Charles Dickens
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
--Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
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