Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]
Interpretation
People often overlook the daily blessings in their lives due to their commonness and forget to express gratitude.
This quote by Izaak Walton emphasizes the importance of recognizing and appreciating the blessings we receive on a regular basis. It suggests that many of the good things in our lives are taken for granted simply because they are frequent and familiar, leading to a lack of gratitude which ultimately causes us to miss out on the full benefits these blessings can provide.
In practice
In a speech on thankfulness, one could quote this to encourage listeners to notice the small joys in their lives.
[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,_x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?
I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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