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“The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.”

Men Giving Children Parent Enemy Example Gratitude Men And Women Charity Loyalty Devotion Boss Mates Faithfulness Good Examples Best Gift Faith And Love

Author:Oren Arnold

“Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to arraign the policy of Stilicho, who so often vanquished, so often surrounded, and so often dismissed the implacable enemy of the republic. The first moment of the public safety is devoted to gratitude and joy; but the second is diligently occupied by envy and calumny.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.”

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Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!”

People Years Wells Book Today Past Universe Nations United Known Lord Enemy Atheism Honor Gratitude Members Treated Lasting Bows Deceiving Providence Great Nations German History

Book:Hitler's Words

Source: Hitler's Words

“Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”

Art Pleasure Enemy Gratitude Foundation Debt Only Love

Author:Anita Diament

“Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude”

Games Enemy Principles Gratitude Losing Stronger Revenge One Friend

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.”

“Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.”

Source: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865

“When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.”

Important Remember Enemy Gratitude Mets Negative Ungrateful

Author:Walt Kelly