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"I sometimes think we expect too much of christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is christmas Day" »David Grayson
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"christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes." »Joan Winmill Brown
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"'Out upon merry christmas What's christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'" »Charles Dickens
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"At christmas play and make good cheer, For christmas comes but once a year." »Thomas Tusser
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"christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of christmas." »Calvin Coolidge
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"christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." »Augusta E. Rundell
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"It is christmas in the heart that puts christmas in the air." »W. T. Ellis
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"christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed christmas night." »Garry Gamble
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"Love came down at christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign." »Christina Georgina Rossetti
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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future." »William Wordsworth
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"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"A turkey never voted for an early christmas." »Irish Proverb
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"I will honor christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." »Charles Dickens
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"A good conscience is a continual christmas." »Benjamin Franklin
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"A merry christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world" »Charles Dickens
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"christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends." »Larry Wilde
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"...it was always said of him Scrooge 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" »Charles Dickens
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"christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." »Jimmy Cannon
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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes
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"'A merry christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug'" »Charles Dickens
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"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." »Lenore Hershey
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"Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house." »Charles Dickens
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"Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life." »Thich Nhat Hanh
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"christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." »Washington Irving
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"Don't expect too much of christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months." »Oren Arnold
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"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." »Oren Arnold
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"Then Bob proposed 'A Merry christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all." »Charles Dickens
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"There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will." »Grenville Kleiser
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"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung." »Phillips Brooks
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