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.
Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.
Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.
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