Burden Quote by John Milton

“A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?”

— John Milton

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

— John Milton

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

— Benjamin Franklin

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we…

— Michael Josephson

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

— Moliere

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

— Seneca the Younger

“Do not make people feel overly indebted to you. In their quest to restore the illusive balance and wipe out the debt, they will…

— Charbel Tadros

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

— Harry Browne

“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”

— Stefan Molyneux

One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay in kind somewhere else in life.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh