Grateful Quotes — Page 39

Military Leader, Politician

“If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.”

Long Memories Grateful

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George Will

Political Commentator, Author

“Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.”

Political Class Grateful

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Grant Morrison

Comic Book Writer, Novelist

“It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.”

Writing Grateful Unorthodox

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Leonard Cohen

Singer-Songwriter

“My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance.”

Daughter Blessed Grateful

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.”

Looks Gratitude Grateful

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.”

Mean Reality Grateful

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.”

Book Gratitude Grateful

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.”

Men Stars Grateful

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.”

Joy Happiness Grateful

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Frederick Douglass

Social Reformer, Writer

“...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'”

Heart Grateful Meat

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Kenny Smith

Basketball Player

“How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life.”

Art Life Grateful

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

Gratitude Grateful I Am Grateful

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