🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥”Christmas tree baubles are fairy eggs.” – From the “Fairy who Believed in Human Beings“, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918
🎄Art – Art by Gertrude Alice Kay.
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” — Norman Vincent Peale
🎄Art – Viggo Johansen, Happy Christmas, 1891, Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen.
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
🎄Art – John William Waterhouse (contemporary Christmas adaptation)
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. – Washington Irving
🎄Art – Eliot Hodgkin – The Christmas Tree, 1936
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥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, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! – Charles Dickens
🎄Art – Rudolf Bernhard Willmann (1868-1919), Christmas Tree Decorated with Lights, Dorotheum.
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥”I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” — Harlan Miller
🎄Art – Robert Weise, Children under the Christmas Tree, 1905.
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. – Ruth Carter Stapleton
🎄Art – Helga Ancher, Days of Christmas, 1919, Skagens Museum, Skagen.
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau
🎄Art – Marcel Rieder, Christmas, 1898.
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥”There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.” – Charles Dickens
🎄Art – Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924), It was the Night before Christmas.
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🎄20 Days Of Christmas
💥”And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans–and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused–and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.” – Sigrid Undset
🎄Henry Bacon, Christmas Prayers, 1872, private collection.
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