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First Responders Day Quotations
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas, as quoted in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan proverb
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out! ~John G. Saxe, quoted in George C. Hale, History of the World's Greatest Fires, 1905
Wishing good, merely, is a lukewarm charity; but doing good is divine. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, c.1596 [V, 1, Portia]
I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks; and ever thanks...
~William Shakespeare, Richard III
Some find their heroes ’mid the battle’s strife;
The greatest heroes are in private life.
~Simeon Carter (1824–1911), Poems and Aphorisms: A Woodman's Musings, 1893
How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston, Cinderella Cargoes, 1929
What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike, 1860
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880), "Address to the Young"
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making the ground green... ~Thomas Carlyle, "Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs," 1838
Have you had a kindness shown,
Pass it on.
’Twas not given for you alone,
Pass it on.
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears...
Be a star in some one's sky,
He may live who else might die,
Pass it on.
~Rev. Henry Burton, "Pass It On," 1898
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
Cousin Hobson: Things are so soon forgotten; a brave act grows out of date.
Agatha: A brave act is never out of date.
~G. M. Robins, "The Weirdale Assize," The Relations and What They Related, 1902
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England, 1917
A brave arm makes a short sword long enough. ~French proverb
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning (1770–1827), "The Pilot that Weather'd the Storm"
When fire is cried and danger is nigh,
"God and the firemen" is the people's cry;
But when 'tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.
~The Fireman's Journal, 1879
No one is useless in this world... who lightens the burden of it for any one else. ~Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, 1865
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