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
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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.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
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At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
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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.
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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.
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At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. TUSSER: 500 _Pts. Good Hus.,_ Ch. 12. Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent snow possess'd the earth.
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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.
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Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was.
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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.
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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
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For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a tshirt with a bulls eye on the back.
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At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.
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I bought my brother some giftwrap for Christmas. I took it tothe Gift Wrap Department and told them to wrap it, but in adifferent print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.
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At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open. Boy.. What a present he gave me!
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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.
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Somehow he Tim 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 for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
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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.
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Once upon a timeof all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eveold Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
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A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug
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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
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Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.
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It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
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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 givenwhen Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
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