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  ...shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. --YOUNG.
Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. --AUSONIUS.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.--NAPOLEON.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. --SHAKESPEARE.
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.   --PUBLIUS SYRUS.
INNOCENCE.--We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.--CHAPIN.
True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin; He's arm'd without that's innocent within. --HORACE.
Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears.--HOOPER.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil...   Syrus, Publilius

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