Thanksgiving Thoughts

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen

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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. Erma Bombeck

He is a wise

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus

I have strong doubts

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I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the ‘history’ I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America’s traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it’s a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. Ellen Orleans

Best of all is

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Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. Conrad Gessner

So once in every

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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

We have been the

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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. Abraham Lincoln