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• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Positive, Christmas

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• I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Travel, Fool

  1599-1600 Rosalind to Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.25-7.

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• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Spiritual, Morning

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

  Andy Rooney

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

  Bob Hope

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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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

  Christmas, Light, Funny Christmas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

  Pope John XXIII

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

  Pope John XXIII (1996). “Days of Devotion: Daily Meditations from the Good Shepherd”, Viking Press

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• What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Father, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.335, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.

  August Strindberg

  Powerful, Struggle, People

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• There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

  William Osler

  Life, Uplifting, Laughter

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• I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

  Robert Burns

  Contentment, Body, Care

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.78

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• Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

  William Blake

  Sweet, Singing, Chorus

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.53, Routledge

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• The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Cuckoos, Messengers

  Edmund Spenser, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1814). “Spenser's Sonnets”, p.38

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• All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

  Lewis Carroll

  Sadness, Gay, Childhood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.967, Delphi Classics

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• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Sports, Xmas

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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• To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.

  Samuel Pepys

  Morning, Men, People

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Dream, Light, Rose

  'Dream-Pedlary'

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• The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fall, Play, Apples

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Laughing, Sin, Conscious

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• Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

  Walt Disney

  Daughter, Children, Fun

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• I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Play, Giving

  John Forster, George Henry Lewes (1896). “Dramatic Essays”

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• It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.

  Stephen King

  Christmas, House, Be Good

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2013

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• The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Cheer, Heart

  Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”

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• But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

  John Philpot Curran

  Blow, Reason, Wailing

  ?1773 'Let Us Be Merry Before We Go'.

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• No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

  John Lennon

  Let It Go, Riding, Merry Go Round

  Song: Watching The Wheels, Album: Double Fantasy, 1998

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