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“I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.”

World Heart Real Half Principles Imagine Share Bears Ought Gratitude Smallest Residents One Half Etymology

Author:Charlotte Charke

“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 think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs War Study Duty Ought Discipline Gratitude All Things Profound Hardship Detachment Evoke Commonwealth Subsistence

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

“A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.”

Heart Matter Enough Grace Ought Gratitude Convince Predictable Single Springtime Blossoming Crocuses

Book:Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

Source: Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

“We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.”

“I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever adjustment is necessary to give a little of your time-as little as two years-consecrating your strength, your means, your talents to the work of sharing with others the gospel, which is the source of so much of the good that you have. I promise that if you will do so, you will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.”

“I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection; but it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty — for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble titude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.”

Ifs Life Looks Made Stills Moving Path Share Duty Ought Gratitude Members Humble Active Protection Dues Rejoice Success In Life No Friends Incumbents Save Yourself

Author:Walter Scott

“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