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If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep,
The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;
When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep?
No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!
Author: George Canning
Source: Song (on "Billy Pitt"), sung at a public dinner
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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam
mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXXIII)
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
Author: George Colman ("The Younger")
Source: Heir-at-Law (act I, sc. 1)
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Gratitude is expensive.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The still small voice of gratitude.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: For Music (st. 5)
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The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving
greater benefits.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxim (298)
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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
[Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Massieu
Source: to the Abbe Sicard
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A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 55)
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Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Amorum (I, 10, 43)
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It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a
fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
[Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.
Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 9, 39)
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 14)
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That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus;
beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.]
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VIII, 8, 11)
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness,
even while receiving it.
[Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo
cogitet.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: De Beneficiis (II, 25)
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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!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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Let but the commons hear this testament,
Which (pardon me) I do not mean to read,
And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood;
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
And dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
Upon their issue.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Hath often left me mourning.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Simon Lee
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
Author: Ralph H. Blum
Source: None
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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Author: Johannes A. Gaertner
Source: None
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Source: None
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Gratitude is the heart's memory.
Author: French Proverb
Source: None
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Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Source: None
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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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.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.
Author: Joseph W. Alsop, Jr.
Source: None
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Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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O Lord to You we give thanks
that in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
Author: Ralph H. Blum
Source: None
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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.
Author: Northrup Christiane
Source: None
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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.
Author: Lord Halifax
Source: None
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Source: None
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Author: Felix Frankfurter
Source: None
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Author: Cicero
Source: None
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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Author: Johannes A. Gaertner
Source: None
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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. -.
Author: George R. Hendrick
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
Author: Ed Howe
Source: None
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Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Author: Elizabeth Carter
Source: None
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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".
Author: Joan Borysenko
Source: None
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Author: Melody Beattie
Source: None
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
Source: None
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Source: None
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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 in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
Author: Nicolas Cage
Source: None
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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. [Matthew].
Author: Bible
Source: None
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