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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Gratitude

A tree that affords thee shade, do not order it to be cut down.Arabian.

Excessive gratitude for a favor is too often used as a handle to a begging box for a second.Punch.

Gratefulness is the poor man’s payment.

Gratitude is a keen sense of favors to come.Talleyrand.

Gratitude is expense.Gibbon.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.Hosea Ballou.

Gratitude is the least of virtues; ingratitude the worst of vices.

Men are grateful in the same degree they are resentful.Pope.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.Addison.

To the grateful man give more than he asks.Spanish.

You may believe anything that is good of a grateful man.