Acceptance of death when it ...

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.
 Ronald Blythe

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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
 Randy Alcorn
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

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 Ronald Blythe
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 Ronald Blythe