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“God bless us, every one!”
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Tiny Tim’s blessing widens goodwill beyond one household and turns a family scene into an inclusive wish for others.
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A Christmas Carol; Tiny Tim’s blessing.
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Christmas quotes
Explore Christmas quotations through generosity and goodwill, family and memory, faith and reflection. Compare how different writers frame the idea across distinct works and periods.
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Shortest in this collection“God bless us, every one!” — Charles DickensLongest in this collection“Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which…” — Charles DickensEarlier source represented“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” — Charles DickensMost connected to other themes“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” — Charles Dickens
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“There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.”
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Dickens treats Christmas as a socially charged name that can awaken affectionate memory, reconciliation and family feeling before any particular celebration or gift is described.
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Sketches by Boz, “Characters,” Chapter II, “A Christmas Dinner,” verified against Project Gutenberg #882 and the scan-backed 1836 Volume I transcription on Wikisource. “There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas” begins the following paragraph, where Dickens describes old jealousies and family estrangements giving way to renewed social feeling and reconciliation. It is early Dickens narrator commentary about Christmas, memory and family relations rather than an empirical claim that holidays automatically repair conflict.
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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
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Christmas becomes a year-round ethic of generosity and attention rather than a mood confined to one date.
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A Christmas Carol, Stave Five.
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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
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Dickens treats good humor as socially contagious, capable of spreading through a room much like a mood.
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Stave Three; excerpted from a longer sentence.
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“Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
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The sentence does not deny bereavement or hardship; it redirects attention toward the good that remains present while acknowledging that every life also contains misfortune.
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Sketches by Boz, “Characters,” Chapter II, “A Christmas Dinner,” verified against Project Gutenberg #882 and the scan-backed 1836 Volume I transcription on Wikisource. “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some” appears immediately after Dickens asks readers to look at their children and explicitly imagines an empty seat where a child has died. The sentence therefore places gratitude beside bereavement and remembered loss rather than denying grief; it is narrator prose, not modern clinical grief-treatment guidance.
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Generosity and goodwillFamily and memoryFaith and reflectionCarrying seasonal values beyond one day
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- “God bless us, every one!” — Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
- “There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.” — Charles Dickens · Sketches by Boz
- “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the…” — Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
- “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” — Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
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Older works represented in the collection, useful for comparing how the topic changes across time.
- “God bless us, every one!” — Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
- “There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.” — Charles Dickens · Sketches by Boz
- “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the…” — Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
- “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” — Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
- “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes,…” — Charles Dickens · Sketches by Boz
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