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So many friendly things are done
In this good world 'twixt sun and sun
That, do our kindest day by day,
We cannot half our debt repay.
~Oliver Marble Gale (1876–1943)


One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.  ~Malayan Proverb


Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas, as quoted in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891


Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell


Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone... ~G. B. Stern, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Man Who Wrote 'Treasure Island,' 1954


I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.  ~William Shakespeare


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~Knight's Treasury of Illustrations by Walter B. Knight, 1963  [Knight "gleaned from a wide variety of sources" for his treasury. I've seen this quotation attributed to Jack Herbert, quoted 1966; Mae Maloo, quoted 1975; and John E. Southard, quoted 1977. –tg]


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  ~G.K. Chesterton


I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.  ~Author Unknown


Saying thank you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality.  ~Alfred Painter


Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.  ~Confucius


The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.  ~Oscar Wilde


Gratitude is the memory of the heart.  ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown


Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Variation of a saying that has been around since at least 1861, author of original saying is possibly Christian Nestell Bovee, see quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/26/kindness-see


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston, Cinderella Cargoes, 1929


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  ~Thornton Wilder


I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.  ~Author Unknown


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.  ~William Feather

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