It furnishes no
motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries,
no crusades, no martyrs.--MACAULAY.
When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts,
they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.--SOUTH.
INGRATITUDE.--If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty
train of human vices, it is ingratitude.--H. BROOKE.
Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.--DE BOUFFLERS.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude.
--SHAKESPEARE.
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets
his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.--BUNYAN.
You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is,
nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also
insufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a
kindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains,
barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody;
they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all
the world.--SOUTH.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that
clever men have been ungrateful.--GOETHE.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.--PLAUTUS.
And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful
has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
--YOUNG.
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