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“Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]”

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Christian Nestell Bovee was an American writer, philosopher, and theologian known for his works in moral philosophy, religion, and literary criticism. more

“It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]”

Ifs Thinking Whole Problem Order Fall Share Mankind Gratitude Species Casts Unhappy Division Misfortunes Realising Possessed

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]”

Should Wells Gratitude Misfortunes Reflecting

Author:William Melmoth

“A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.”

Attitude Gratitude Blessing Mercy Clouds Edges Temper Sunny Attitude Of Gratitude

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.”

May Wise Gratitude Draws Advantage Accidents Unlucky

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.”

Men Wells May Dream Stars He Man Gratitude Mountain Adversity Bottom Ease Prosperous Things Learned

Book:The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus

Source: The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus

“Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.”

Knows Suffering Language Gratitude Understood

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Take things always by their smooth handle.”

Gratitude Handle Smooth

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.”

Knows Made Know How Gratitude Composition Furnaces Dross

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.”

Belief Hollywood Conviction

Author:Matt Dillon

“Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.”

Evil Gratitude Disease Cures Affliction

Book:The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith

Source: The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith

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