The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.
Everybody likes a compliment.
- Topic: Appreciation, compliment, Gratitude
- Location: Cancun, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.
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Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
