Thanksgiving Quotes - Page 13

• For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things th

  Walter Mason Camp

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Believe

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• There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. In other words, if a young man or a young woman has no opportunity of getting married, and they live faithful lives up to the time of their death, they will have all the blessings, exaltation, and glory that any man or woman will have who had this opportunity and improved it. But if they think marshmallows and sweet potatoes are delicious, they're going to burn. That is sure and positive.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Sweet, Blessing, Opportunity

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• Gratitude is heaven itself.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Heaven

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.88, Univ of California Press

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• We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Years, Numbers

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Gratitude, Ungrateful People, Men

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Fullness Of Life, Being Thankful

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Sweet, Hot

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• Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

  Horace

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Thankfulness

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• Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

  George Herbert

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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• It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

  Aaron Neville

  Long, Records, Company

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• Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

  Mick Jagger

  Thank You, Teacher, Ego

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• Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Religious, Adversity

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.14

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• It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Blessed, Perspective

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• I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thank You, Vegetables, Want

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• It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Grateful, Heart

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• The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Gratitude, Integrity, Blessing

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• The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

  Kinky Friedman

  Texas, Thank God, Be Grateful

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• many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

  Judith Martin

  Football, People, Relief

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• When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

  George Canning

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Appreciation, Gratitude, People

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• All that we behold is full of blessings.

  William Wordsworth

  Gratitude, Kids, Blessing

  William Wordsworth (2016). “Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other Poems”, p.14, Michael O'Mara Books

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

  Wilbur D. Nesbit

  Home, Heart, Forever

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• Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

  John Henry Jowett

  Thankfulness, Fortitude, Family Gratitude

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• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio, XXXIII, p. 336-37, 1922.

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