“May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.” MayChildrenCountryCausesEnjoyUnitedGenerationsThousandBenefitsOur ChildrenInstitutionsGloriousRejoice Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.” DoeWaterThousandTenBenefits Author:Laozi
“I gaze upon the thousand stars That fill the midnight sky; And wish, so passionately wish, A light like theirs on high. I have such eagerness of hope To benefit my kind; I feel as if immortal power Were given to my mind.” IfsFeelsMindKindLightGivenWishStarsSkyThousandBenefitsEnthusiasmImmortalMidnightNight SkyEagerness Author:Margaret Landon
“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.” MenYearsDoeBookHandsTreeYouthThousandBenefitsUnderstoodHundredMercyPreparedFruitBe PreparedAssuredExalted Author:Al-Ghazali
“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.” IfsMenHeartFeelingsLightInterestWhiteFireOughtThousandBenefitsJudgmentRateSpreadEvery ManWelfareHeatThings To DoWarmthCouncilThrustHastyPersonal InterestPersonal Feelings Author:Woodrow Wilson
“When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.” PeopleFeelsKindSeemsFeltTalkingSourceThousandBenefitsDistanceAtmosphereOld FriendsSource Of Happiness Author:Dalai Lama