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Thanksgiving 2013: Best Quotes And INFOGRAPHIC

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Thanksgiving isn’t just an opportunity to gorge on turkey; it’s also one of the most important weekends of the year for the retail sector. As much as 40% of American shopping occurs on the now infamous Black Friday and Cyber Monday – the first two business days that fall after Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving quotes:

W.T. Purkiser

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

Will Carleton

Thanksgiving-day, I fear,

If one the solemn truth must touch,

Is celebrated, not so much

To thank the Lord for blessing o’er,

As for the sake of getting more!

Henry David Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual…O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Alistair Cooke

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

Konrad von Gesner

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

John Clayton

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

G.A. Johnston Ross

If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence.

Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

H.U. Westermayer

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Infographic

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Thanksgiving infographic by Kapitall Wire

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