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“We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.”

Knows Universe Ought Grateful Be Grateful

Book:CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

Source: CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

“We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.”

Way Pay Attention Watches Fine Ought Gratitude Grateful Surprise Caught Pay Attention Clock

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“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.”

Ifs World Giving Feels May Has Beens Helping Purpose Opportunity Enjoy Born Ought Gratitude Grateful Luxury Generosity Be Grateful Vulgar Benefactors Assisting

Book:Bleak House: Easyread Edition

Source: Bleak House: Easyread Edition

“The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.”

Thinking Heart Church Ought England Grateful Thank God Be Grateful Bounty Boon Church Of England

Book:How to stop worrying & start living

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.”

Thinking Giving Taken Ought Give Me Grateful Generous Be Grateful Deprived

Author:Rene Descartes

“I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!”

“Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.”

Race Ought Grateful Be Grateful Insulting Convicts

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.”

Thinking World Way Trying Persons Ought Gratitude Degrees Grateful Unhappiness Be Grateful Complication

Author:Robert Ringer

“I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.”

People Thinking Wells Facts Fall Views Ought Grateful Admire Hopefully Behaviour Provoking Be Grateful Mindless Bigots Bait Breach Well Mannered

Author:Norman Tebbit

“If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.”

People Ifs Knows Sides Groups Ought Grateful Privilege Track Saved Elites Be Grateful

Author:Alan Watts