Christmas Quotes

• "At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year."
  By: Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XII)
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• "Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we: Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany-Tree."
  By: William Makepeace Thackeray, The Mahogany-Tree
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• "The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (XXVIII)
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• "Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!""
  By: William Mackergo Taylor
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• "Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas."
  By: William Robert Spencer
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• "At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows; But like of each thing that in season grows."
  By: William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i)
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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."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto VI, introduction)
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• "At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own."
  By: Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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• "God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born upon this day, To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, For Jesus Christ our Saviour was Born on Christmas Day."
  By: Old Song, old English song
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• "To realize this purpose--to change humanity, to triumph over evil, and to honor the Father by a union never to be broken of the Father and the many sons who should be brought unto glory--this was the thought which filled the mind of Jesus Christ. This is the meaning of Christmas; and as we love God with soul and mind and strength, and prove our divine sonship by good will and kindness toward all our fellow-men, we shall realize the divine idea of our Master and unite in His blessed work."
  By: Observer
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• "God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day."
  By: Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik), Christmas Carol (st. 2)
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• "It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb."
  By: Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)
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• "'Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there."
  By: Clement Clarke Moore, LL.D., A Visit from St. Nicholas
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• "Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony."
  By: John Milton, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (st. 13), a hymn
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• "This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring, For so the holy sages once did sing, That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with His Father work us a perpetual peace."
  By: John Milton, Hymn--On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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• "Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year."
  By: Sir George Alexander Macfarren, From a Fragment (before 1580)
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