and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol Nelson
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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~Roy L. Smith
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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ~Mary Ellen Chase
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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable 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, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
###### Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis
###### Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens,
###### There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. ~Walter Scott
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
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May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens
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Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas[/SIZE]