• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 69 reads

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• Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 158 reads

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• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 182 reads

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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]

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 147 reads

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 106 reads

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

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 55 reads

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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.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.0 · 19 votes · 183 reads

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• It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 115 reads

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• Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 62 votes · 129 reads

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• Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 120 reads

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• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.9 · 20 votes · 9 reads

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• Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 20 reads

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• One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 53 votes · 26 reads

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• Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 20 votes · 18 reads

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• Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 24 reads

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 51 votes · 10 reads

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• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 58 reads

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• The public have neither shame or gratitude.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 179 reads

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 31 reads

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

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 44 votes · 188 reads

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• This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.2 · 40 votes · 1 reads

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• We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 140 reads

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• When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 116 reads

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