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• Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dog, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Hail, high Excess especially in wine,
  To thee in worship do I bend the knee
  Who preach abstemiousness unto me
  My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine.
  Precept on precept, aye, and line on line,
  Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree
  With reason as thy touch, exact and free,
  Upon my forehead and along my spine.
  At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup,
  With the hot grape I warm no more my wit;
  When on thy stool of penitence I sit
  I'm quite converted, for I can't get up.
  Ungrateful he who afterward would falter
  To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wine, Sacrifice, Skulls

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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• How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

  John Newton

  Heart, My Heart, Alas

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• Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

  Adolf Hitler

  Song, Religious, Children

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

  Robert South

  Kindness, Doe, Sand

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• if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

  Joyce Rupp

  Perfect, Waiting, Cracks

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• There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude.

  Steven Petrow

  Rude, Seems

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.

  Milan Kundera

  Wise, Mother, Dream

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• [Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

  Edward de Bono

  Gratitude, Negative, Way

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• The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. When all other friends desert, he remains.

  George Graham Vest

  Dog, Selfish, Kissing

  "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

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• The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Taste, Degrees, Saint

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• You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

  Philip Massinger

  Religious, Failure, May

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1813). “The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence”, p.204

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• My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

  Richelle Mead

  Plot, Muse, Abandoned

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.35, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

  Orson Scott Card

  Grief, Thinking, Joy

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• One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.

  Joel Osteen

  Miracle, Thankfulness, Routine

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• People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Untouchables

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Arrogant, Body

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

  Edward Young

  Guilt, May, Virtue

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.259

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• The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heart, Character, Long

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.134, UPNE

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• She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Giving, Upset

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting. For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours; they offer you their blood, their goods, their life, and their children, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches, they revolt.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Children, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli , Ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Fickle, Hypocritical

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• The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency

  Gary North

  Exercise, Commercial Banks, Goal

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• Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

  Ann Voskamp

  Humanity, Firsts, Sin

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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