First – Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age.
There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with.
Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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.
Come in, – come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.