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gratitude grateful opportunity
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me. Charles Dickens
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
gratitude grateful language
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
gratitude appreciation attitude
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
gratitude children joy
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration. Charles Spurgeon
birth remember importance
When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death. Charles Simmons
birthday tin cold
Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin Alan Bennett
birthday children nice
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing. Chris Brown
birthday mom fashion
My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion. Chloe Grace Moretz
birthday mother cake
My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday. David Ulevitch
birthday kings holiday
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. David Horowitz
birthday success disappointment
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn
birthday men years
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. Arnold Bennett
birth endure existence family god invented jews line official possess threatened worship
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people. Michel Onfray