Holly
Berries
From
Dickens

Holly
Berries
From
Dickens ·

Copyright
DeWolfe Fiske & Co
Boston · 1898 ·

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nineteenth Day.

It is the duty of a man to be just

before he is generous.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. The following printer errors have been changed.