Rest and be thankful.
William Wadsworth
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Rest and be thankful.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for t...
TERRY BRADSHAW Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
WILL ROGERS I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
HARVEY MACKAY If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he...
FRANK A. CLARK The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud
Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.
...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Wadsworth is a tough tournament. It makes the young men focus and listen since they know they will b...
DAVID GRANT Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.
REBA MCENTIRE Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you ...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON This has been a great ordeal I've gone through. I'm thankful to be alive and thankful to be going ho...
GARY DODDS To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be kind. Be authentic. Be thankful.
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankfu...
ALBERT BARNES Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
BETHANY HAMILTON My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.
JENNA MORASCA If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's C...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON If you don't know what to be thankful for, be thankful for all the troubles you haven't had yet.
VIKRANT PARSAI If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemet...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF Our rural ancestors with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Nay! but serve Allah alone and be of the thankful.
QURAN A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Be thankful for the sacred life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job...
JIM LOVELL what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, The secret anniversari...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO [The Saints are thankful San Antonio stepped in. For at least the rest of the season, this is their ...
WAYNE GANDY nothing to complain about, and a lot to be thankful for.
BOB STANLEY Be thankful for all you have! and any troubles you don't!
HEATHER MONTANO Wadsworth is a great team with great tradition and a good coach in Andy Booth. It's going to be a to...
JULIE SOLIS Today is a day to be thankful.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When life is sweet, be thankful, and rejoice; but when bitter, be strong, and persevere.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankf...
KHALED HOSSEINI William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Enjoy every moment, be thankful for what you have and abundance will be yours.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you a...
E.C. MCKENZIE I'll always be the best that I can be
and be thankful that I am me.
MARILEE COPPLE If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to ...
FRANK A. CLARK I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually b...
ELAYNE BOOSLER Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
ALEXANDER POPE Don’t settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative an...
GERMANY KENT Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don'...
OPRAH WINFREY Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it's meetings or running gassers or lifting, it...
ERIC BERRY We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't b...
RUUD VAN NISTELROOY A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that...
MICHAEL NEWDOW From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry W...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
SARA HUMPHREYS Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice t...
H. L. MENCKEN Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's go...
EWEN BREMNER I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrieva...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I've been blessed, and I'm thankful to be here, and I'm going home to my goats.
HEATHER COX Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.
- He...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
WILL ROGERS Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?
BRITNEY SPEARS "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.
THOMAS A KEMPIS As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a...
EUGENIE CLARK Be thankful that you have clothes to wear, food to eat and a place to sleep.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal...
A.J. JACOBS There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankfu...
JILLIAN MAYER They were so appreciative and thankful.
LISA WEBBER Always be thankful to your shadow, it keeps your darker part out.
NEHA KOTHARI We should be thankful we don't live in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama.
LISA SMITH Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
RICHARD DAWKINS I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the famil...
NATALIE COLE Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every ...
LISA MISCHELLE WOOD Like every other good thing in this
world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, ea...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER I am so happy for this team, for Mike Shank and for Mark Patterson. Everything went almost perfectly...
OSWALDO NEGRI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If it's true and all, we're thankful.
BOBBY ORR He graduated, and we're thankful for that.
DARREN YAFAI Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
ROY T. BENNETT Don't hate me for being different.
Just be thankful I'm not you.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS One must be thankful for hard time as it makes you stronger & confident.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER This Thanksgiving Americans are especially thankful for our freedom and we are especially thankful t...
A. BUSH We were at Wadsworth; there were two outs in the inning. After the next throw, I felt the tear. It f...
CORY HINDEL I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.
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Were not obtained by sudden flight,
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When he ...
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O...
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T...
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Is spreading far and wi...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The music of the brook silenced all conversation.
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...
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...
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To the church doth hie!
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...
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW My Book and Heart
Shall never part.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
Th...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night,
They have driven...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
The innermost recesses of my spirit!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phant...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feet that run on willing errands!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW They sing, they will pay.
[Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.]
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the openi...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of
singers,
Swinging aloft on a willow...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Two ways the rivers
Leap down to different seas, and as they roll
Grow deep and still, and the...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I love the season well
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-fol...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
Crushing th...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee,
Waved their torches to mislead him.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Thy voice
Is a celestial melody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep,
All things within its bosom sleep!
A single step, and all ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repe...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of
studies a dull brain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Since yesterday I have been in Alcala.
Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,
When that d...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipin...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or i...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
. . . .
And, when the echoes had ceased, ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the
surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that b...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of
emotion,
That if by chance it be shak...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world.
Saints only have such faces.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this
particular! Some of them speak n...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant vo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us foo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
Under the orchard-trees and down the pa...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and i...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of
heaven, and Evening stooped down to unlo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, w...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW