"The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next."
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"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better."
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"I don't believe in waiting for great feelings. I need to wire myself for positivity and gratitude. I need to build a highway to those."
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"Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware."
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"If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so."
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"Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it."
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"As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor."
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"There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it."
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"The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received."
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"He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it."
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"There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it."
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"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse."
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"I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my sense of humor gets me through a lot."
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"Unwanted favours gain no gratitude."
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"God's foremost treasure on earth Is my ever-blossoming Gratitude-heart."
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"True gratitude can never come From the mind. It has to flow from the heart To the mind, vital and body Until everything that we have and are Is a sea of gratitude."
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"The whole world is looking for miracles. Every day it is dying to see miracles. But can there be any miracle More challenging, more illumining And more fulfilling Than to see and feel the infinite Beauty Of my Beloved Supreme Inside this tinier than the tiniest Gratitude-heart of mine?"
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"Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings."
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"His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided."
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"We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend."
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