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christmas children sometimes
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. Charles Dickens
christmas men alive
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! Charles Dickens
christmas honesty hands
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. Charles Dickens
christmas new-year years
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world! Charles Dickens
christmas heart men
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. Charles Dickens
christmas memories years
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good. Charles Dickens
christmas daughter heart
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see. Charles Dickens
christmas children home
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) Charles Dickens
christmas girl father
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. Charles Dickens
scotland rough-edges doctrine
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again. Charles Spurgeon
scotland half denmark
The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1) Alan Hansen
scotland glasses tea
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. Catherine Helen Spence
scotland space progress
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. Charlotte Mary Yonge
scotland looks switzerland
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. Sydney Smith
scotland fantasy faux
I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. David Bowie
scotland states courses
The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could. Alistair Darling
scotland people mind
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there. Alistair Cooke
scotland independence generations
We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now Alex Salmond
potatoes couches fries
When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries. Demetri Martin
potatoes irishmen
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head. Augustus Hare
potatoes enough mashed-potatoes
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. Frank McCourt
potatoes desert plant
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. Jim Fowler
potatoes valuable ancestor
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. Francis Bacon
potatoes fries french-fries
I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. Mary J. Blige
potatoes fierce brides
Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them? Sherrilyn Kenyon
potatoes cold
Marriage is the cold potato of love. Myrtle Reed
potatoes guise enamored
I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises. James Beard