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“In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”

Made Values Mankind Gratitude Misery Priorities Great Value

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!”

Mankind Gratitude Unwilling

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”

Source: Bolshevism: practice and theory

“Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.”

Social Justice Virtue Mankind Gratitude Approach Apprehension

Author:Samuel Parr

“I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!”

Soul Mankind Wall Gratitude Bitter I've Learned Repose Fortresses Crumbling Bitter Truth

Author:Georgia Douglas Johnson

“Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.”

Giving Lord Mankind Gratitude Thanks

Author:Elijah Muhammad

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.”

World Heart Children Dream Parent Loses Known Mankind Gratitude Laughter Parenting Checks Funny Parenting

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.”

Memories Moral Mankind Gratitude

Author:Georg Simmel

“The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.”

Giving Care Mankind Gratitude Blessing Majority

Author:Donald Barnhouse

“If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind.”

Source: The debates in the several state conventions on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia in 1787: Together with the Journal of the Federal convention, Luther Martin's letter, Yates's minutes, Congressional opinions, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98-'99, and other illustrations of the Constitution

“All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.”

People Home Speak Voice Streets Mankind Painting Gratitude Court Raised Prose Halls Farms Stillness Cafes Speaking Out Great Voice

Book:The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy

Source: The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy

“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

“The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.”

Ifs Needs Persons Mankind Gratitude Grateful Characteristics Be Grateful Surroundings

Author:John Maynard Keynes