Holly berries from Dickens

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOLLY BERRIES FROM DICKENS *** [Illustration: Holly Berries From DICKENS ] [Illustration] [Illustration: _Holly Berries_ From DICKENS · ] [Illustration: Copyright DeWolfe Fiske & Co Boston · 1898 ·] First Day. [Illustration] A good action is its own reward. _Dickens._ The will to do well ... is the next thing to having the power. _Mr. Pecksniff._ Forgiveness is a high quality, an exalted virtue. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ In love of home the love of country has its rise. _Old Curiosity Shop._ Tears never yet wound up a clock or worked a steam-engine. _Sam Weller._ Second Day. Show me the man who says anything against women, as women, and I boldly declare, he is not a man. _Pickwick._ Natural affection and instinct are the most beautiful of the Almighty’s works. _Charles Cheeryble._ It must be somewhere written that the virtues of the mothers shall occasionally be visited on the children, as well as the sins of their fathers. _Mr. Jarndyce._ We can all do some good, if we will. _Dickens._ Third Day. In the cause of friendship ... brave all dangers. _Pickwick Papers._ Let us be among the few who do their duty. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Fortune will not bear chiding. We must not reproach her, or she shuns us. _Old Curiosity Shop._ It is an undoubted fact that all remarkable men have had remarkable mothers. _Haunted Man._ Every man has his enemies. _Old Curiosity Shop._ Fourth Day. [Illustration] For Heaven’s sake let us examine sacredly whether there is any wrong entrusted to us to set right. _Little Dorrit._ Surprises, like misfortunes, rarely come alone. _Dombey and Son._ What the poor are to the poor is little known excepting to themselves and God. _Bleak House._ An honest man is one of the few great works that can be seen for nothing. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Thinking begets thinking. _Oliver Twist._ Fifth Day. It’s a world of sacred mysteries, and the Creator only knows what lies beneath the surface of His lightest image. _Battle of Life._ There is hope for all who are softened and penitent. There is hope for all such. _Haunted Man._ What I want is frankness, confidence, less conventionality, and freer play of soul. We are so dreadfully artificial. _Dombey and Son._ Sixth Day. [Illustration] Only time shall show us whither each traveler is bound. _Little Dorrit._ Women, the tenderest and most fragile of all God’s creatures, were the oftenest superior to sorrow, adversity and distress. _Pickwick Papers._ The consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being, when all others have deserted us, is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow. _Pickwick Papers._ Seventh Day. [Illustration] Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. _Barnaby Rudge._ The sea has no appreciation of great men, but knocks them about like small fry. _Bleak House._ A joke is a very good thing ... but when that joke is made at the expense of feelings, I set my face against it. _Nicholas Nickleby._ There can be no confusion in following Him and seeking no other footsteps. _Little Dorrit._ Eighth Day. There is no situation in life so bad that it can’t be mended. _Pickwick Papers._ If the good deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautifully would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their own growth in dusty graves! _Old Curiosity Shop._ Use and necessity are good teachers-- the best of any. _Stagg._ Philosophers are only men in armour after all. _Pickwick Papers._ Ninth Day. You must expect to go out, some day, like the snuff of a candle; a man can die but once. _Little Dorrit._ Energy and determination have done wonders many a time. _Bleak House._ Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race. _David Copperfield._ In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. _Nicholas Nickleby._ Let there be union among us. _Mr. Pecksniff._ Tenth Day. Among men who have sound and sterling qualities, there is nothing so contagious as pure openness of heart. _Nicholas Nickleby._ There is not an angel added to the Host of Heaven but does its blessed work on earth in those that loved it here. _Old Curiosity Shop._ There is a providence in everything; everything works for the best. _Dombey and Son._ A man never knows what he can do till he tries. _Pickwick Papers._ Eleventh Day. Worldly goods are divided unequally, and man must not repine. _Bleak House._ [Illustration] Do as you would be done by! Forget and forgive! _Battle of Life._ But for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us. _Haunted Man._ Gallantry in its true sense is supposed to enoble and dignify a man. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Twelfth Day. We should all try to discharge our duty. _Pickwick Papers._ Unless we learn to do our duty to those in our employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us. _David Copperfield._ Simplicity and plainness are the soul of elegance. _Old Curiosity Shop._ There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in contrast. _Pickwick Papers._ There is always something to be thankful for. _Little Dorrit._ Thirteenth Day. We all have some bright day--many of us, let us hope, among a crowd of others,-- to which we revert with particular delight. _Nicholas Nickleby._ Be forever grateful unto all friends. Especially unto them which brought you up by hand. _Mr. Pumblechook._ Dignity and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waist coat than some people imagine. _Oliver Twist._ [Illustration] Fourteenth Day. Vice takes up her abode in many temples, and who can say that a fair outside shall not enshrine her? _Dr. Losberne._ Without strong affection and humanity of heart and gratitude to that Being whose code is Mercy, and whose great attribute is Benevolence to all things that breathe, happiness can never be attained. _Dickens._ Unchanging love and truth will carry us through all. _Dickens._ Don’t try the feelings of any. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Fifteenth Day. There is a great end to gain, and that I keep before me. _Old Curiosity Shop._ If your destiny leads you into public life and public station, you must expect to be subjected to temptations which other people is free from. _Pickwick Papers._ There is no substitute for thorough-going ardent, and sincere earnestness. _David Copperfield._ If our inclinations are but good and open-hearted, let us gratify them boldly, though they bring upon us loss instead of profit. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Sixteenth Day. There is no royal road to learning, and what is life but learning. _Our Mutual Friend._ Anxious people often magnify an evil and make it worse. _Old Curiosity Shop._ [Illustration] Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason. _David Copperfield._ What we have to do is to turn our faces in our new direction, and keep straight on. _Our Mutual Friend._ Be careful to develope your talents. _A Tale of Two Cities._ Seventeenth Day. Nothing is past hope. _Christmas Carol._ There is scarcely a sin in the world that is in my eyes such a crying one as ingratitude. _Tom Pinch._ Truth and honesty, like precious stones, are perhaps most easily imitated at a distance. _Nicholas Nickleby._ Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. _Great Expectations._ The best among us need deal lightly with faults. _Dickens._ Eighteenth Day. [Illustration] Monarchs imagine attractions in the lives of beggars. _Dombey and Son._ No man who was not a true gentleman at heart ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. _Great Expectations._ All happiness has an end--hence the chief pleasure of its next beginning. _Old Curiosity Shop._ You should feel the Dignity of Labour. _The Chimes._ [Illustration] Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms. _Old Curiosity Shop._ Nineteenth Day. It is the duty of a man to be just before he is generous. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ It is difficult to offer aid to an independent man. _Barnaby Rudge._ Go in and win--an admirable thing to recommend if you only know how to do it. _Pickwick._ Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. _Hunted Down._ The world is prone to misconstruction. _Dombey and Son._ Twentieth Day. There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much and overreach themselves. _David Copperfield._ Be diligent, work for a steady independence, and be happy. _Dombey and Son._ It is not on earth that Heaven’s justice ends. _Old Curiosity Shop._ Women, after all, are the great props and comforts of our existence. _Pickwick Papers._ Self-praise is no recommendation. _Bleak House._ Twenty-first Day. [Illustration] Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn. _Little Dorrit._ Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are often very powerful auxiliaries. _Nicholas Nickleby._ The envious man beholds his neighbor’s honours even in the sky. _Barnaby Rudge._ A man can’t at all times be quite master of himself. _Christmas Stories._ Twenty-second Day. May every blessing that a true and earnest heart can call down from the source of all truth and sincerity cheer and prosper you. _Oliver Twist._ God bless home once more, and all belonging to it. _Haunted Man._ Perhaps it’s a good thing to have an unsound hobby ridden to death. _David Copperfield._ Be as rich as you honestly can. It’s your duty. Not for your sake, but for the sake of others. _Little Dorrit._ Twenty-third Day. [Illustration] Who that has a heart fails to recognize the silent presence of another? _Barnaby Rudge._ Father Time is not always a hard parent, and though he tarries for none of his children, he often lays his hand lightly on those who use him well. _Barnaby Rudge._ Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. _A Tale of Two Cities._ [Illustration] It’s much easier to talk than to bear. _Madam Mantalini._ Twenty-fourth Day. Where’s the good of putting things off? Strike while the iron’s hot. _Barnaby Rudge._ Money ... some people find their gratification in storing it up, and others in parting with it. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ Only the wisdom that holds the clue to all hearts and all mysteries can surely know to what extent a man can impose upon himself. _Little Dorrit._ Every man came into this world for something. _Gabriel Varden._ Twenty-fifth Day. [Illustration] Perfect coolness and self-possession ... are indispensable accomplishments of a great mind. _Pickwick Papers._ The hill has not lifted its face to Heaven yet, that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. _Nicholas Nickleby._ If you can’t get to be uncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through being crooked. _Great Expectations._ Twenty-sixth Day. Cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation true practical Christianity ever is. _The Uncommercial Traveller._ Live at least, in peace, and trust in God to help. _Nicholas Nickleby._ Reflect upon your present blessings-- of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. _Sketches by Boz._ All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers. _Great Expectations._ Twenty-seventh Day. There’s a moral in everything, if we would only avail ourselves of it. _Dombey and Son._ It is the highest part of the highest creed to forgive before memory sleeps, and ever to remember how the good overcame the evil. _Haunted Man._ There is nothing, no, nothing innocent or good that dies and is forgotten. _Old Curiosity Shop._ It does not follow that the more talkative a person becomes the more agreeable he is. _Dickens._ [Illustration] Twenty-eighth Day. Blustering assertion goes for proof half over the world. _Little Dorrit._ From rough outsides serene and gentle influences often proceed. _Dickens._ A generous nature is not prone to strong aversions, and is slow to admit them even dispassionately. _Little Dorrit._ Twenty-ninth Day. Work: don’t make fine playing speeches about bread, but earn it. _Ralph Nickleby._ If I do my duty, I do what I ought, and do no more than all the rest. _Dombey and Son._ Do not strive and struggle to enrich yourselves or to get the better of each other. _Martin Chuzzlewit._ People accustomed from infancy to lie on down feathers, have no idea how hard a paving-stone is without trying it. _Hard Times._ [Illustration] Thirtieth Day. Memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. _Nicholas Nickleby._ It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. _Christmas Carol._ It’s a world full of hearts, and a serious world with all its folly. _Battle of Life._ Thirty-first Day. Our judgments are so liable to be influenced by many considerations, which almost without our knowing it, are unfair, that it is necessary to keep a guard upon them. _Little Dorrit._ There are chords in the human heart-- strange varying strings-- which are only struck by accident. _Old Curiosity Shop._ It is well for a man to respect his own vocation, whatever it is; and to think himself bound to uphold it, and to claim for it the respect it deserves. _Little Dorrit._ [Illustration] * * * * * Transcriber’s note Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. The following printer errors have been changed. =CHANGED FROM TO= Page 12: “always some thing to be” “always something to be” Page 19: “Go in an win” “Go in and win” Page 26: “An Uncommercial Traveller.” “The Uncommercial Traveller.” Page 31: “what ever it is” “whatever it is” *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOLLY BERRIES FROM DICKENS ***