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Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

— William Gilmore Simms

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

— Eric Hoffer

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

— Ronald Reagan

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

— Confucius

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

— Josh Billings

✗Opposing Perspectives

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

— Edward Everett