Gratitude quotes — Page 2

Ulysses, near the close of the poem.

“To My Dear and Loving Husband,” posthumously published in the 1678 second edition of Several Poems; represented by Representative Poetry Online. The poem is a Puritan-era personal love lyric with explicitly religious closing language.

Character Building, “Growth,” Project Gutenberg #60484. The line sits inside a longer appeal to remember parents and others invested in the student’s success.

Character Building, “Have You Done Your Best?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington is asking students to imagine answering to parents or their nearest and dearest friends.

Character Building, “Growth,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington uses the phrase while urging students to make the coming year their best.

Character Building, “Two Sides of Life,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington contrasts excellent coffee with poor rolls as a small exercise in selective attention.

Character Building, “Helping Others,” Project Gutenberg #60484. This is Washington’s moral counsel to students, not a guaranteed psychological formula.

The Lady of the Shroud, Project Gutenberg #3095. The wording is quoted in a letter as the remembered wisdom of Rupert’s mother; “wants” and “want” are deliberately contrasted.

A Christmas Carol; Tiny Tim’s blessing.

“Another Spring,” Project Gutenberg #16950. The stanza begins conditionally—'If I might see another Spring'—so the present-focused conclusion grows from mortality and uncertainty.

De Amicitia, chapter 6 / classical section 22, Andrew P. Peabody translation, Project Gutenberg #7491. “Such friendship at once enhances the lustre of prosperity, and by dividing and sharing adversity lessens its burden” closes Laelius’ contrast between ordinary association and true/perfect friendship. The sentence remains ancient ethical rhetoric rather than a guaranteed psychological effect of companionship.

Laelius on Friendship, Shuckburgh translation.

Aurora Leigh, Book VII, printed page 304 / Wikisource scan leaf 313, scan-backed Chapman and Hall third edition (London, 1857), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #56621. Aurora’s “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God” belongs to an explicitly theistic argument about art, spiritual perception and the divine significance of ordinary nature. It remains poetic-religious narration rather than a scientific claim about nature.

Poems of Optimism, “Beauty”; Project Gutenberg #7421. The surrounding stanza describes autumn forests as a gallery of vivid colors; the line is poetic and devotional observation, not a scientific claim about aesthetic value.

The Diary of a Nobody, Chapter I, before the dated diary entries; Project Gutenberg #1026. After describing The Laurels and its back garden, Charles Pooter says “What’s the good of a home, if you are never in it?” and makes “Home, Sweet Home” his motto. The sentence belongs to Pooter’s domestic self-characterization inside diary fiction rather than a general lifestyle rule from the Grossmith brothers.

“Pied Beauty,” written in 1877 and first published in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918), represented by Project Gutenberg #22403. The poem is a Christian curtal sonnet of praise; its theological attribution of natural variety remains devotional poetry.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. “Attain heaven” belongs to Keller’s explicitly religious language and is not secularized into a guaranteed outcome.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller is reflecting on her own early experience of language and education.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The surrounding passage explicitly says her optimism does not rest on the absence of evil.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller contrasts longing for a great task with the daily duty of doing humble tasks well.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The statement is autobiographical and tied to Keller’s own assessment of disability and useful work.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The sentence precedes her statement that the desire and will to work is optimism itself.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The invocation of God and “Best” is retained as part of Keller’s religious moral framework.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The line follows her discussion of many “tiny pushes” by honest workers.

The Story of My Life; Keller links happiness with moments when self-consciousness recedes.

The Story of My Life; Keller reflects on finding experience and interest even within darkness and silence.

The World I Live In (1908), Chapter IX, “Inward Visions,” printed page 119, Project Gutenberg #27683. Keller says that the wonders of the universe are revealed in proportion to our capacity to receive them and immediately connects keenness of vision with feeling, love of nature and imaginative receptiveness.

The World I Live In (1908), Chapter I, “The Seeing Hand,” printed page 5, Project Gutenberg #27683. Keller calls the hand her “feeler” reaching through isolation and darkness to seize pleasure and activity, describing her own tactile engagement with the world rather than prescribing one universal sensory hierarchy.

Walden, chapter “The Pond in Winter”; the line joins the immediate natural world with spiritual wonder.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II, Valley of Humiliation, represented by Project Gutenberg #39452, the Jesse Lyman Hurlbut-edited Every Child Can Read edition that includes the Part II episode. Mr. Great-heart and the pilgrims see a shepherd boy feeding his father's sheep and hear him sing ‘He that is down needs fear no fall...’; the song is followed by Great-heart's praise of the boy's heart's-ease. The previous #131 fallback does not contain this represented Part II passage, so the evidence layer moves to #39452. The stanza remains embedded Christian-allegorical character song rather than Bunyan autobiography or secular clinical advice about humility.

Winter Sunshine, essay “The Exhilarations of the Road.” The sentence follows Burroughs’s comparison of winter walks in different directions and precedes his claim that all roads lead toward the walker’s sought-for Jerusalem.

On the Grasshopper and Cricket, opening line.

The Mountains of California, in a passage describing morning light on the mountains.

Travels in Alaska, mountain excursion near the Stickeen; Muir describes the effect of evening light after a strenuous day.

Travels in Alaska, early sea voyage; Muir moves from ocean scenery to imagining the globe and stars together.

Travels in Alaska, same Stickeen excursion; the sentence follows Muir’s description of the world seeming newly born.

Lectures on Art, Lecture VII, Project Gutenberg #19164. Ruskin is warning students against both conceit and servile imitation.

The Prophet, “On Friendship.”

The Prophet, “On Giving.”

The Prophet, “On Giving.”

The Prophet, “On Work.”

1 Thessalonians 5:16 in the King James Version; a concise instruction within a series of practical exhortations.

Psalm 90:12 in the King James Version.

Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill, Chapter 17, Project Gutenberg #38567. Spoken during a conversation about parents and confidences; the emotional force comes from imagined or absent maternal care.

Jo's Boys, Chapter 10, Project Gutenberg #3499. The speaker contrasts disliked teaching with harder household work done for her own family.

Little Women, Chapter 1, “Playing Pilgrims,” Project Gutenberg #514. Beth March answers her sisters’ complaints about poverty with “We’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” naming family relationships as what remains available to them. This is Beth’s fictional dialogue inside the opening domestic scene.

Meditations, Book VII, in George Long’s translation.

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), “MORAL DISCIPLINE,” printed page 22, Project Gutenberg #67466. Wollstonecraft urges that a taste for the beauties of nature be cultivated early and immediately recommends making the vegetable and animal worlds intelligible and amusing to children.

The Art of Money Getting, expense-account discussion; Project Gutenberg #8581. This is Barnum’s historical generalization about comfort and spending, not a modern cost-of-living statistic.

Proverbs 15:15 in the King James Version; concluding clause of the verse.

Psalm 19:1, King James Version; the psalm opens by treating the heavens and firmament as a form of testimony through creation.

Psalm 71:23 in the King James Version; opening clause of the verse.

Essays: First Series, “Friendship” (1841), verified against Project Gutenberg #2944 and the 1907 Merrill/Turpin page witness in Project Gutenberg #16643, printed page 128. “When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune” opens Emerson’s treatment of Tenderness, the second element of friendship, and uses fortune metaphorically rather than as a material or financial claim.

The Conduct of Life; Emerson uses the line while describing life as an expanding field of experience rather than a narrowly fixed allotment.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence follows Smiles’s description of cooperation with nature and argues that food, clothing and shelter all depend on labour; it is a broad moral-economic claim, not a complete production model.

Song of Myself, in Whitman’s catalogue of equal wonders.

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.

The Tables Turned; the line follows Wordsworth’s claim that a vernal wood can teach moral insight.