River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-21
Gratitude.

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The gratitude of place-expectants is a
lively sense of future favors.-Sir Rob
et Watpole.
10 the generous mind the heaviest
debt is that of gratitude, when it ia not
IN our power to repay it.-FrankLi,1.
He who receives good turn should
never forget it ; he who does one should
never remember it.-Charron.
The feeling of gratitude has all the
ardor of passion in noble hearts,
textiles P0incei0t.
GRATITUDE is duty which ought to
be paid, but which none have right to
expect. - Rousseau.
A SINGLE grateful thought towards
heaven is the most perfect prayer
leasing.
O LORD, that lends me life, lend me
heart replete with thankfulness.
Shakespeare.
He that breaches gratitude pleads
the cause both of God and men; for
without it we can neither be sociable
nor religious. Seneca.
He who remembers the benefits of
his parents is too much occupied with
his recollections to remember their
faults. r. Bcranger.
In is anothers fault if he be migrate
| full, but it is mine if | do not give. To
| find one thankful man / will oblige q
great many that are not so.-ScRecd.
Those who make us happy are al
ways thankful to us for being so. Their
gratitude is the reward of their own
benefits. SiOefchine.
From David learn to give thanks in
everything. Every furrow in the book
of Psalms is sown with seeds of thanks
giving. Jeremy taylor.
THERE is a selfshness even in graf
itude, when it is too profuse; to be
oyer-thankful for one favor is in effect
to lay out for another Cumberland.
People follow their interest; one
man is grateful for his convenience, and
another man is ungrateful for the same
reason.
THERE is as much greatness of mind
i'll the owning of good turn as in the
doing of 1t; and We must no more force
a requital out of season than be wanting
in it.-SeHec0.
0 CALL not to my mind what you
have done 1t sets debt of that ac-
count before me, which shows me poor
and bankrupt even in hopes Com
| grcUe.
The reason for misreckoning in ex-
pected returns of gratitude is that the
pride of the giver and receiver can
never agree about the value of the OBJ
| Observation-Disclosures.
The law of the pleasure in having
done anything for another is, that the
one almost Immediately forgets having
| given, and the other remembers eter-
nally having received.-Seneca.
THERE are minds so impatient OF in
feriority that their gratitude is a species
of revenge and they return benefits,
not because recompense is pleasure,
but because obligation is pain. john
son.
CICERO calls gratitude the mother of
virtues reckons it the most capital of
duties and uses the words grateful"
and "good as synonymous terms, in
separately united in the same character.
| John Bate.
GRATITUDE is like the good faith of
| traders-it maintains commerce; and we
often pay, not because it is just to dis
charge our debts, but that we may
more readily lind people to trust u.s.
Rochetoucaaid.
Now it was well said, whoever said it,
"That he who hath the loan of money
has not repaid it, and he who has re-
paid has not the loan ; but he who has
acknowledged kindness has it still,
and he who has feeling of it has re-
Quilted it. Cicero,
EPIcURUs says gratitude is virtue
that has commonly profit annexed to
it. And where is the virtue, say |,
that has not? But still the virtue is to
be valued for itself, and not for the
profit that attends it.--Senecd.
GRATTrUDE is the fairest blossom
which springs from the soul; and the
heart of man hnoweth none more fra
grant. While its opponent, ingratitude,
is a deadly weed not only poisonous in
itself, but impregnating the very at
mosphere In which it grows, with fetid
vapors.-IfOSea BatiOU.
! 1T is very nigh mind To which graf
itudeis not painful sensation. If you
wish to please, you will find it wiser to
receive, solicit even, favors, than accord
them for the vanity of the obligor is
always flattered, thato the obligee rare
v BulVcrLy ton
liz that precipitates a return does as
good ms say, ! am weary of beingin this
mans debt not but that the Fastening
of requitll as "a good office, is com.
mendable disposition, but it is another
thing to do it as a discharge for it
looks like casting off a heavy and
troublesome burden. Seneca.
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