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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.

—Ojibway proverb

34.

When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough,

I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.

—Henry Fielding

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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full.

—Alexander Maclaren

36.

A grateful mind

By owing owes not, but still pays, at once

Indebted and discharg’d.

—John Milton

37.

Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

—Edmund Spenser

38.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

—George Colman the Younger

39.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

—Seneca the Younger

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Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.

—Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

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From too much love of living,

From hope and fear set free,

We thank with brief thanksgiving

Whatever gods may be.

—Algernon Charles Swinburne