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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
The Screwtape Letters (1942) -
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
Works (1912) -
If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Nobel acceptance speech (1986) -
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
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One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.
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