 | "On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence."
- William Jennings Bryan
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| "Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude !"
- Henry Ward Beecher
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| The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
- H.U. Westermayer
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| "For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you', that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart
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| Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
- E.P. Powell
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| So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
- Arthur Guiterman
, The First Thanksgiving. |
| "Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain."
- Alexander Pope
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| "What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving ?"
- Erma Bombeck
, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving", 26 November 1981. |
| Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
- W. J. Cameron
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