gratitude

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There but for the grace of God go [I].

- John Bradford

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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

- Budgell, Eustace

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Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

- Scott, Sir Walter

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

- Seneca

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Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

- Milloy, Courtland

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This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

- Leach, Christopher

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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

- Blum, Ralph H.

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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude -- a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.

- Ambrose Bierce

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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

- Benjamin Disraeli

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

- Walter Scott

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If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

- Clark, Frank A.

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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

- Halifax, Edward F.

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Pray night and day, very quietly, like a little weary child, to the good and loving God, for everything you want, in body as well as soul--the least thing as well as the greatest. Nothing is too much to ask God for--nothing too great for Him to grant: glory be to Thee, O Lord! And try to thank Him for everything . . . I sometimes feel that eternity will be too short to praise God in, if it was only for making us live at all! And then not making us idiots or cripples, or even only ugly and stupid! What blessings we have! Let us work in return for them--not under the enslaving sense of paying off an infinite debt, but with the delight of gratitude, glorying that we are God's debtors.

- Letters. 1843.

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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Tracy, Brian

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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.

- David Nicholls

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I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. [Twelfth Night]

- Shakespeare, William