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christmas men alive
Charles Dickens And 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!
christmas honesty hands
Charles Dickens Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
christmas heart men
Charles Dickens But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
christmas children home
Charles Dickens He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)
christmas girl father
Charles Dickens They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
christmas-carol marley
Charles Dickens Marley was dead: to begin with.
christmas happy-holidays forgiving
Charles Dickens I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
christmas names magic
Charles Dickens There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.
laughter littles rotten
Charles Spurgeon A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.
laughter believe miracle
Alan Watts There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.
laughter real anxiety
Alan Watts Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
laughter laughing doubt
Alan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
laughter tears may
Aiden Wilson Tozer May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!
laughter thinking skeletons
Chinua Achebe Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.
laughter laughing mind
Edmond de Goncourt Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
laughter oxygen
Dawn Powell I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
laughter shows
David Walliams I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.
sadness faces brightness
Charles Dickens Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
sadness night years
Charles Spurgeon God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.
sadness hands all-alone
Al Stewart You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
sadness mind want
Akhenaton What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
sadness
Deborah Harkness And happiness is always louder than sadness.
sadness humility thinking
C. S. Lewis My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.
sadness being-funny
Charlie Chaplin What a sad business is being funny!
sadness sunshine darkness
Bill Withers Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.
sadness tantrums
Byron Katie All sadness is a tantrum.