“Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 172 of 709
“Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.”
“Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.”
“Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”
“That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
“A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.”
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
“The sun is but a morning star.”
“Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.”
“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.”
“Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.”
“Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?”
“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”
“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”
“In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.”
“The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.”
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.”
“Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.”
“There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.”
“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”