He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
A grateful mind is a great mind. [ Seeker ]
Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labor when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and offerings, and a thankful strain. [ Pope ]
Nothing more thankful than pride when complied with. [ Proverb ]
Be thankful for your ennui; it is your last mark of manhood. [ Carlyle ]
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. [ Izaak Walton ]
The good-finder (if such a barbaric sounding word may be used), is thankful for whatever comes. [ Ossian Lang ]
He was a kind and thankful toad, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer; and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink. [ Washington Irving ]
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary. [ Epicurus ]
Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. [ Horace ]
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]