Gifts

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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He ne'er considered it as lothOf gifts that cost them nothing, free.

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The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

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It was the custom of the Roman emperors, at their triumphal entrance, to cast new coins among the multitudes; so doth Christ, in His triumphal ascension into heaven, throw the greatest gifts for the good of men that were ever given.

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Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse.

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He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

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The higher giving is anonymous giving.

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Every gift of noble originIs breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself. … Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing."

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A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.

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As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.

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It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

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It is not the weight of jewel or plate, Or whose was the gift of myrrh.

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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

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Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

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Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!

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Not what we give, but what we share,—For the gift without the giver is bare.

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In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

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Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

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And wisest he in this whole wide land Give him the best to come.

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All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given away.

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Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

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The horseleech hath two daughters, crying Give, give.

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He always looked a given horse in the mouth.

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Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving;Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

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Cum quod datur spectabis, et dantem adspice! While you look at what is given, look also at the giver.

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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.

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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

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All other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.

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Win her with gifts, if she respect not words;More than quick words do move a woman's mind.

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Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,When I give I give myself.

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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.

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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And love, and thought, and joy.

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That every gift of noble originIs breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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