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Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. -- Robert Burns

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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. -- Brooks Atkinson

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Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. -- Benjamin Franklin

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The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings. -- Charles Dickens

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This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! -- William Arthur Ward

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Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold. -- Anonymous

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Christmas… that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance -- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. -- Augusta E. Rundel

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Christmas… that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance -- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. -- Augusta E. Rundel

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Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. -- Bess Streeter Aldrich

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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. -- Mary Ellen Chase

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It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling--the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart. -- Washington Irving

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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. -- Peg Bracken

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Christmas is the day that holds all time together. -- Alexander Smith

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Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad. -- John Greenleaf Whittier

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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

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I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. -- Harlan Miller

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Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. --Unknown

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And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. -- Dr Seuss

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As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. -- Donald E. Westlake

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I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. -- Ashley Tisdale

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It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. -- W.T. Ellis

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. -- Eric Sevareid

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Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign. -- Christina Rossetti

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! -- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. -- Oren Arnold

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The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom. -- Washington Irving

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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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Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. -- Edith Sitwell

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Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. -- Dale Turner