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Title: Holly berries from Dickens

Author: Charles Dickens

Release date: October 12, 2023 [eBook #71858]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: DeWolfe Fiske & Co, 1898

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# Holly
Berries
From
Dickens

Holly
Berries
From
Dickens ·

Copyright
DeWolfe Fiske & Co
Boston · 1898 ·

[Pg 1]

## First Day.

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.

[Pg 2]

## 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.

[Pg 3]

## 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.

[Pg 4]

## Fourth Day.

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.

[Pg 5]

## 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.

[Pg 6]

## Sixth Day.

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.

[Pg 7]

## Seventh Day.

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.

[Pg 8]

## 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.

[Pg 9]

## 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.

[Pg 10]

## 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.

[Pg 11]

## Eleventh Day.

Worldly goods are divided unequally,
and man must not repine.

Bleak House.

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.

[Pg 12]

## 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.

[Pg 13]

## 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.

[Pg 14]

## 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.

[Pg 15]

## 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.

[Pg 16]

## 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.

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.

[Pg 17]

## 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.

[Pg 18]

## Eighteenth Day.

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.

Nature often enshrines
gallant and noble
hearts in weak bosoms.

Old Curiosity Shop.

[Pg 19]

## 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.

[Pg 20]

## 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.

[Pg 21]

## Twenty-first Day.

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.

[Pg 22]

## 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.

[Pg 23]

## Twenty-third Day.

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.

It’s much easier to talk
than to bear.

Madam Mantalini.

[Pg 24]

## 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.

[Pg 25]

## Twenty-fifth Day.

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.

[Pg 26]

## 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.

[Pg 27]

## 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.

[Pg 28]

## 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.

[Pg 29]

## 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.

[Pg 30]

## 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.

[Pg 31]

## 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.

[Pg 32]

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”

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