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Authors that have more than 2 quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Jean Anouilh (top)
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
- Jean Anouilh


Unknown Author (top)
Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.
- Unknown Author
A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.
- Unknown Author
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
- Unknown Author


Max Beerbohm (top)
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
- Max Beerbohm


Elizabeth Barrett Browning (top)
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Kahlil Gibran (top)
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Kahlil Gibran


John Andrew Holmes (top)
The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
- John Andrew Holmes


Kin Hubbard (top)
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
- Kin Hubbard


George Macdonald (top)
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George Macdonald


Portuguese Proverb (top)
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
- Portuguese Proverb


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (top)
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Rabindranath Tagore (top)
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
- Rabindranath Tagore


William Arthur Ward (top)
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward


Elwyn Brooks White (top)
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
- Elwyn Brooks White