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• God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Gratitude, Children, Blessed

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• What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Gratitude, Sadness

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.50, Grove Press

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• True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

  Coco Chanel

  Mean, Generosity, Accepting

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• Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Brutes

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• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

  Charles Dickens

  Sorry, Rain, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

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• I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Arms, Fortune, Companion

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• Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

  E. B. White

  Friendship, Mouths, Accusation

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• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

  William Shakespeare

  Monsters, Ingrates, Being Me

  William Shakespeare (1834). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.11

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• Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

  Samuel ibn Naghrillah

  Men, Thank You God

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• One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Wish

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• Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

  Samuel Garth

  Weed, Firsts, Thrive

  Sir Samuel Garth (1800). “The Poetical Works of Sir Sam. Garth, M.D., with the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition. [With Illustrations.]”, p.76

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• It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thanksgiving, Passion, Justice

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• Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Artistic Life, Would Be

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• It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

  Rufus Sewell

  Battle, Lucky, Easy

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• ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Death, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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

  Edward Young

  Ungrateful, Guilt, May

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

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• A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

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• ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Gratitude, Receiving, Favors

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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

  Ungrateful, Humanity, Firsts

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

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• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Men, Blessing

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• A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Envy, Complaining

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.2

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Ambition, Men, Giving

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• Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Haste, Obligation

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• The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

  Aesop

  Kindness, Ungrateful

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.13, Lulu.com

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