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• Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

  Increase Mather

  Wine, Godly, Abuse

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• I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

  Brenda Lee

  Stars, Heart, Looks

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• With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and humbly asking together for the Lord's protection? Or closing the day without kneeling together and acknowledging our accountability before Him and our thankfulness for His blessings? Brothers and sisters, we need to have family prayer.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Morning, Brother, Prayer

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• I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Real

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• The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.

  George Sarton

  Heart, Humility, Pride

  George Sarton (1936). “The study of the history of mathematics and the study of the history of science”

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• This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Gratitude

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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• My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Gratitude, Hero

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, And Love, Delight

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

  John Calvin

  Sacrifice, Tables, Sacred

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• Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Garden, Yield

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• The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

  Hilary Swank

  Baby, Boys, Dollars

  "'Million Dollar Baby' wins best picture". www.today.com. February 24, 2005.

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• Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thanksgiving, Yesterday, Crystals

  Charles Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 2”, p.221, Lulu.com

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• Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.328, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

  Yip Harburg

  Cutting, Missionary, Lord

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• Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, People, Drunk

  "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

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• Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expression

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.34, Conari Press

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• . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gratitude, Art, Attitude

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

  George Carlin

  Thanksgiving, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Rudyard Kipling, David Arscott (2007). “A Sussex Kipling”, p.85, Pomegranate Press

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• Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• I'm thankful for every moment.

  Al Green

  Thanksgiving, Be Grateful, Moments

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• I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Prayer, Feelings

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.74, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

  Jim Loehr

  Gratitude, Character, Tennis

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• Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

  Wilbur D. Nesbit

  Thanksgiving, Home, Heart

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