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Ingratitude is monstrous
Ingratitude is monstrous
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
[Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
[Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy read more
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, read more
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
[Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
[Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vie read more
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who
have risen far above him.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who
have risen far above him.