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• grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Gratitude, Grateful, People

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• Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.398, Random House

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• Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, Favors, Lasts

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1838). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.154

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• He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

  Elizabeth I

  Forget, Gods Will

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• It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

  Thomas Traherne

  Kings, Wall, Men

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.

  Stanley Krippner

  Heritage, Victim, Has Beens

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• I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, New York, Self

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• Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Gratitude, Two, Ungrateful

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• Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.

  Donald Wildmon

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Responsibility, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.202, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Memories, Mind

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• Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Motivational, World, Sole

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.474

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• Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Men, Enemy

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• Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  White, Trying, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.

  R. J. Hollingdale

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  R. J. Hollingdale (2001). “Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Political, Wicked

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• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Tree, Political

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• Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless,
  but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.

  Tecumseh

  Brother, White, People

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• Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Young, Seems

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.215

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• A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, Charity, Begging

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• As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Animal, Squirrels

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Weed, Making A Difference, Thorns

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Adversity

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• We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered.

  T.I.

  Sacrifice, Blood, Sweat

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