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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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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge ou...more

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Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become ...more