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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
- Alexander Pope


One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh


He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
- Baltasar Gracian


Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
- Alexander Pope


Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
- Bible


Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
- Cicero


Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
- Ed Howe


Gratitude is expensive.
- Edward Gibbon


Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson


Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
- Elizabeth Carter


I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning, Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning.
- William Wordsworth


Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero


in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
- Nicolas Cage


There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
- Ralph H Blum


Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
- Northrup Christiane


I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time 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.
- Lord Halifax


Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
- Ovidius Naso


There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
- Ralph H Blum


Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
- Henry Ward Beecher


It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
- Seneca


A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd.
- John Milton


Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
- Felix Frankfurter


Gratitude is the heart's memory.
- French Proverb


True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him.
- George R Hendrick


A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher


To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A Gaertner


If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain


Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
- William Shakespeare


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher


Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Jean Baptiste Massieu


A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero


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


The still small voice of gratitude.
- Thomas Gray


It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
- Ovidius Naso


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