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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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"You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered." »Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
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"It is christmas in the heart that puts christmas in the air." »W. T. Ellis
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"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow? The rose-garden, which to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, may not afford thee one." »Firdausi
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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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"A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose." »Rob Cella
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"The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose." »Richter
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"A turkey never voted for an early christmas." »Irish Proverb
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"A good conscience is a continual christmas." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I will honor christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." »Charles Dickens
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"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." »Persian Proverb
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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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"A merry christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world" »Charles Dickens
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"The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose." »Heda Bejar
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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns." »Pilpay
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"What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." »William Shakespeare
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"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow." »Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." »Jimmy Cannon
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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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"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible
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"If Pete rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement." »Jerry Coleman
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"True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades." »Unknown
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"Life without sacrifice is like a pretty rose without smell and thorns." »A.Carcani
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