Giving Quotations
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| You try to give away what you want yourself. | |||
| - Lois McMaster Bujold | |||
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| If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. | |||
| - Margaret Cho | |||
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| We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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| If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. | |||
| - Norman Douglas | |||
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| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. | |||
| - George Eliot | |||
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| There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. | |||
| - Euripides | |||
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| Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. | |||
| - Thomas Fuller | |||
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| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. | |||
| - Kahlil Gibran | |||
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| The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. | |||
| - Baltasar Gracian | |||
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| What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. | |||
| - P.D. James | |||
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| Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. | |||
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||
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| You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. | |||
| - Albert Schweitzer | |||
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| The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||
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| A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. | |||
| - Publilius Syrus | |||
| He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. | |||
| - Publilius Syrus | |||
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| You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. | |||
| - Zig Ziglar | |||