I am now better; and hope gratitude, as well as distress, can be a motive to remembrance.

to you, Who cheered the stranger's darkest days, And helped him on his way, what praise And gratitude are due!

Examples of error: "Gratitude is a forcible and active principle in good and generous minds.

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Our devout gratitude is due to the Supreme Being for having graciously continued to our beloved country through the vicissitudes of another year the invaluable blessings of health, plenty, and peace.

"This spontaneous gratitude is a vital thing.

The gratitude of the family was a matter of little consequence to me.

It is well known that gratitude is the foundation of our duty to our country, and to our superiours, whom we are obliged to protect upon some occasions, because, upon others, we receive protection from them, and are maintained in the quiet possession of our fortunes, and the security of our lives.

"Gratitude to the preserver of thy life becomes thy station and sex; it is a duty.

Furthermore it is suggested that gratitude to the new God, who delivered the Israelites from their bondage, was the reason why they proved on the whole so loyal to Jehovah.

Savage's passions were strong, among which his resentment was not the weakest; and as gratitude was not his constant virtue, we ought not too hastily to give credit to all his prejudice asserts against (his once praised patron) lord Tyrconnel.

Great as her gratitude was, her family pride resented dictation, and resented also the implied slight to poor Nat.

Gratitude for kindness is a marked trait in the Indian character, and Pulin bethought him of the old fable of the Lion and Mouse.

I value your friendship, but neither gratitude nor friendship is love, and I have nothing more than those to give.

'Sir, gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.'

" "Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come.

GRATITUDE was the absorbing emotion.

If gratitude be the proper description of that sentiment which one feels towards the unconscious bestower of an unintended benefit, I acknowledge myself sincerely grateful to the honourable gentleman (Mr. Macdonald) who has introduced the present motion.

Truly, gratitude is a lost art, and some friends immediately become enemies when they can secure from you no more plunder.

Thus, should any one say that parsimony is frugality, that gratitude is justice, that this or that action is or is not temperate: however specious these and the like propositions may at first sight seem, yet when we come to press them, and examine nicely what they contain, we shall find that it all amounts to nothing but the signification of those terms. 13.

Gratitude is indeed a duty which we are bound to pay, but which benefactors can not exact.