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«Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.»
«Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: received, rises
«And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: despised, even as, flesh, received, rejected
«And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.»
«A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime»
«A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.»
«From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
«Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.»
«All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.»
«A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her»