SOME FAMOUS GREETINGS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, 24 December 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

SOME FAMOUS GREETINGS.

So. may each year bo happier than the nist, and not one meanest brother or sister debarred of his share of the eroat Creator's good gifts!- niarleDiekens.

A merry Christmas to us all mw dears. God Mess us every one 1‘ said Tiny Tim tho last of all. Charles Dickens.

Men cannot live isolated ; we are aTT bound together. No higher man can separate himself from the lowest — Carlyle.

Every clay is a fresh beginning* Listen, my soul, to tho glad'refrain And spite of old sorrow and older sinning, Take heart with the day and bogtrr again. - Susan Coolidge. Rough-going, ardent and sincere, earnestness—the’-e is no'substittie for them. — Charles Dickens.

Realise that doing pood is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life. - Sir Philip S.dney.

A et to have gently dreamt precludes low ends. -James Russell Lowell.

Christmas time I have always thought of as good time ; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. -Charles Dickens.

Heap on more wood, the wind is chill ; Ryt- let it whistle as it will, e 11 keep our Christmas merry still ’ —Sir Walter Scott.

I snid it in the meadow-path ; 1 say it on tho mountain stairs— Pho best things, any mortal hath Are those wliieh every mortal shares -Lucy Larco.

rheti arose a joyous clamour I‘rotn the wildfowl on the mere, And a voice within cried, “Listen! Christmas carols even here!” - Charles Kingsley. May the fair goddess. Fortune, f a ]F deep in love with thee .- Prosperity be ■ thy page. — Shakespeare. Again at Christmas did we. weave -i'L? hollv round the Christmas heartii .• Tlie silent snow possessed the earth. And calmly fell in Christmas Eve. — Tennyson. So ever keep Hope, for in this is s.rengdi. and he who possessetli it can worry through typhoid. - Rudvard’ Kipling.