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Updated: June 28, 2025
Do we congratulate ourselves on our own cleverness, tact, and skill, saying, 'mine hand hath done it, or do we hug ourselves on our own good fortune, and burn incense to chance and 'circumstances'? or, sadder still, are we generously grateful to every human friend that helps us, and unthankful only to God or does the glad thought come, to gild the finest gold of our possessions with new brilliance and worth, and to paint and perfume the whitest lily of our joys with new delightsomeness, 'All things come of Thee'; 'Thou makest us drink of the river of Thy pleasures'? Blessed are they who, by the magic glass of a thankful heart, see all things in God, and God in all things.
Alwynn looked a little alarmed and disconcerted. He never cared to talk about himself. "I used to get tired," he said at last, with reluctance, "when I was younger. There were times when I foolishly expected more from life than than, in fact, I quite got, my dear; and the result was, I fear I had a very discontented spirit an unthankful, discontented spirit," he repeated, with sad retrospection.
Epictetus had a happy figure for things like the play of the senses, or literary form and finish, or argumentative ingenuity, in comparison with "the best and master thing" for us, as he called it, the concern, how to live. Some people were afraid of them, he said, or they disliked and undervalued them. Such people were wrong; they were unthankful or cowardly.
Our helpful friends went home, feeling that they had not bestowed their kindness on unthankful people whose scheme of life was to get and take, but not to return. Well, our first year was drawing to a close. The 1st of December was celebrated by an event no less momentous than the killing of our pigs, to Winnie's and Bobsey's intense excitement.
This is the Cross He would have you take up, and He who died to save the sinful and unthankful will give you grace sufficient to your need." "Yes, I begin to think it is!" she returned; and a light came into her eyes, and she lay back in a satisfied manner. "I never thought of it in that way; it seemed my punishment just taking away my work and leaving me nothing but helplessness and emptiness."
He had not only to remove the misunderstandings that arose between the Maltese and their allies, to settle the differences among the Maltese themselves, and to organise their efforts; he was likewise engaged in the more difficult and unthankful task of counteracting the weariness, discontent, and despondency of his own countrymen a task, however, which he accomplished by management and address, and an alternation of real firmness with apparent yielding.
The old hawker got cross at her silence, and called her an unthankful jade, and wished that he had left her to her fate, and parted company with her at two cross-roads, saying his path did not lie with hers; and then when he had done that, was sorry, and being a tenderhearted soul, hobbled back, and would fain press a five-franc piece on her; and Bébée, refusing it all the while, kissed his old brown hands and blessed him, and broke away from him, and so went on again solitary towards St.
A Diet of Public Worship in the Time of Knox. "What I have been to my country, albeit this unthankful age will not know, yet the ages to come will be compelled to bear witness to the truth." A Diet of Public Worship in the Time of Knox.
You pride yourself on your beautiful edition of Casaubon's translation of Marcus Aurelius, and you savour the cadences of the famous: This day I shall have to do with an idle, curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man. All these ill qualities have happened unto him, through ignorance of that which is truly good and truly bad.
"I've done it!" he said, "and I've six things to be thankful for and nine to be unthankful for " One thing for which I think you might feel "unthankful" is your lamentable lack of near relations. It is hard to be quite alone in the world; for, I agree, aunts don't count for much. Weighed in the balance they are generally found woefully wanting.
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