Today's Word – ANTITHESIS
For each new morning with its light,
Father, we thank thee,
For rest and shelter of the night,
Father, we thank thee,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything thy goodness sends,
Father, in heaven, we thank thee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
It has seemed to me fit and proper that [the gifts of God] should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
-Thanksgiving proclamation, 1863
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
Robert Caspar Lintner
Thanksgiving, to be truly thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.
Proverb
Heap high the board with plenteous cheer, and gather to the feast,
And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.
Give praise to that All-Gracious One by whom their steps were led,
And thanks unto the harvest's Lord who sends our daily bread.
-The first Thanksgiving Day
Alice Williams Brotherton
an·tith·e·sis
noun 1. Direct contrast; opposition. 2. The direct or exact opposite: Hope is the antithesis of
despair. 3.a. A figure
of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel
phrase or grammatical structure, as in "Hee for God only, shee for God in
him" (John Milton). b. The second and contrasting part of such a juxtaposition. 4. The second stage of the Hegelian
dialectic process, representing the opposite of the thesis.
What opposite discoveries we have seen!
(Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.)
One makes new noses, one a guillotine,
One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets;
But vaccination certainly has been
A kind antithesis to
Congreve's rockets,
With which the Doctor paid off an old pox,
By borrowing a new one from an ox.
DON JUAN
Lord Byron
Definition from American Heritage Dictionary
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