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"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."

"My prayer is an attitude of pure gratitude for having the opportunity to experience life on this earth with all its pain, heartache, worry, and turmoil; coupled with this gratitude is the thankfulness for just having the opportunity to have lived. That is fairly easy on good days but difficult when life puts rocks and boulders in the road."

"Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives."

"People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life."

"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."

"Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting."

"If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this."

"If you have life, you have everything."

"Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it."
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"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."


"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."


"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."


"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity."


"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave."
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