Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-16
Gratitude.

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lively sense of future favors. Sir ROB-
crt IVal'otc.
TO the generous mind tho heaviest
debt is that of gratitude, when it is not
in our power to repay it.-Frankti,.
Hn who receives good turn should
never forget it he who does one should
never remember it.-CHu,you.
THE feeling of gratitude has all the
nr'tor of a passion i'll noble hearts,
Ichitics IOinccl0t.
GRArrrUDE is duty which ought to
bo paid, but which mono hive a right to
oxpect.-Ho,tsseau.
A SINGLE grateful thought towards
heaven is the most perfect prayer
Leasing.
0 LORD, that lends mo life, lend mo
q heart replete with thankfulness.-
shakespeare.
He that breaches gratitude pleads
tho cause both of God and men: for
without it we can neither DO sociable
nor eligiOus.-iSaucc0.
He who remem bers the benefits of
his parents is too much occupied with
his recollections to remember their
f"ults.-Bcrangcr.
IT is another's fault if he be migrate
full, but it is mine if I do not give. To
find ono thankful man I will oblipe a
great many that are not so.--iSencc0.
Those who make us happy are al
ways thankful to us for being so. Their
gratitude is the reward of their own
benefits. Stuctchisae.
FROM David learn to give thanks in
everything. Every furrow il. the book
of Psalm is sown with seeds of thanks
giving.-Jcremy Taylor.
THERE is selfiahness even in graf
itude, when it is too profuse to be
over-thankful for one favor is in effect
to lay out for Cumberland.
PEOPLE follow. their interest; one
man is grateful for his convenience, and
another man is ungrateful for the same
reason.-SeVcc0.
THERE is as much greatness of mind
in the owning of q good turn as in the
doing of it; and we must no more force
q requital out of season than be wanting
in it.-Senec0.
0 CALL not to my mind what you
have done! It sets debt of that &C.
count before me, which shows me poor
and bankrupt even in hopes Con-
greVe.
The reason for misreckoning in OK
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.-Sencco.
THERE are minds SO impatient of in
feriority that their gratitude is species
of revenge; and they return benefits,
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.
ALMOST every one takes pleasure in
repaying trifling obligations, very many
feel gratitude for those that are moder-
! ate; but there is scarcely any one who
is not ungrateful for those that are
weighty.-Rochefoucaul
GRATITUDE is like the good faith of
traders it maintains commerce; andwe
often pay, not because it is just to dis
charge our debts, but that we may
more readily find people to trust U.S.
RochetoucGuld.
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. "-Cjcero,
EP1cURUs says "gratitude is virtue
that has commonly profit annexed to
it."-And where is the virtue, say I,
that has not? But still the virtue is to
be valued for itself, and not for the
profit that attends it.-Seneca.
GRATITUDE is the fairest blossom
which springs from the soul; and the
heart of man knoweth none more fra
grant. While it's opponent, ingratitude,
is a deadly weed not only poisonous in
itself, but impregnating the very at
mosphere in which it grows, with fetid
vapors.-Hose0 B0lI0u.
IT is a very high mind to which graf
itude is 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, thatof the obligee rare
y.-ButsoerLytton
He that precipitates return does as
good as o3 wsty y Of hs this
of requital, as q good office, is com:
mendable disposition, but it is another
thing to do it as discharge for it
looks like casting off a heavy and
troublesome burden.-Senec0.