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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."	George Eliot
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."	George Eliot
"Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."	George Eliot
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."	Charles Dickens
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"	Amanda Bradley
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."	André Gide
"Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are."	Joan L. Curcio
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!"	Richard Exely
"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."	Quentin Crisp
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
"For it is in giving that we receive."	Saint Francis of Assisi
"For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all."	Kahlil Gibran
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."	Kahlil Gibran
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."	Henry Louis Mencken
"God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has."	Arthur John Gossip
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous."	Chuang-Tzu
"How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest."	Junius
"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."	Johann Kaspar Lavater
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Confucius	Damien Hess	Dean Koontz
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Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Louis Mencken	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
Joan L. Curcio	Johann Kaspar Lavater	John Blofeld
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Junius	Kahlil Gibran
Nadia Boulanger	Ogden Nash	Og Mandino
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Exely	Saint Augustine	Saint Francis of Assisi
Sheldon Kopp	Simone de Beauvoir	Tao Le Ching
William Blake	William Bolitho	William John Bennett
(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling