The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
Interpretation
The New Year is eagerly anticipated, similar to how an heir brings hope and celebration.
In this quote, Charles Dickens personifies the New Year as an 'Infant Heir,' suggesting that it brings with it the promise of renewal and the potential for new beginnings. Just as a newborn is welcomed with joy and gifts, the arrival of the New Year is celebrated with anticipation and enthusiasm, reflecting humanity's hope for better times ahead.
In practice
This quote could be used in a New Year's Eve speech to inspire the audience for the upcoming year.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-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.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.
Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.
I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
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