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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
Sep 10, 2025
Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.
Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.
Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.
We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.
He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.
Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.
Ingratitude is monstrous.
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.