![In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-the-fabulous-ages-of-ancient-times-the-appellations-of-mercury-venus-mars-j.jpg)
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gratitude attitude generosity
Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity. Debbie Macomber
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There's no night without stars. Andre Norton
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Ingratitude is monstrous. William Shakespeare
gratitude feelings living-my-life
I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part. Ellen DeGeneres
gratitude past care
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going. Gloria Steinem
gratitude past people
There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future. Harry S Truman
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I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace. J. Robert Oppenheimer
gratitude grateful heart
Have a grateful heart to be happy. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
gratitude water desert
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief. Gene Fowler
stars science night
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stars war wish
I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had. Channing Tatum
stars cutting paper
I could cut a star out of paper and drop it. Diana Wynne Jones
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Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future. Damon Lindelof
stars rocks rock-star
I wanted to be a rock star. Craig Ferguson
stars thinking interesting
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stars heart order
Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts. Boethius
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The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in. Doris Lessing
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature Baruch Spinoza
philosophical adversity doubt
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out... Eugene Ionesco
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It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon