Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Being Thankful
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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