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- Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who…
- To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
- Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
- In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look…
- Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
- Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was…
- Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell…
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth,…
- It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
- Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to…
- And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he…
- Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face…
- When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,…
- Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about…
- You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all…
- So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
- I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse…
- And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis…
- The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it…
- I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
- My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen…
- Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,…
- I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman,…
- Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
- Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second…
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