I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence, and just about everything that goes along with Christmas. – Hillary Scott

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens

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Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds. ― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. – Caroline Kennedy

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Sometimes miracles are just good people with kind hearts. – Unknown

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What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.

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Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds.

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

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