Quote by William Faulkner
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. – Joseph Addison

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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. Matthew – Bible

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