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.
When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without a male chaperone. The greatest moment was when that ended.
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
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