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Tag Name "Gifts" (943)

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Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.
George Stillman Hillard
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
Vivien Leigh
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I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
Ama Ata Aidoo
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
Madame de Stael
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There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Joseph Addison
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Always humble yourself lovingly before God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and enriches them with His gifts.
Pio of Pietrelcina
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Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
John Bunyan
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Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.
Steve Goodier
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Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
Matthew Knisely
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Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
Tony Robbins
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We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
Yousuf Karsh
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin
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This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles us. Mary remains ever the path that leads to Christ. Every encounter with her can only result in an encounter with Christ himself
Pope Paul VI
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One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Neil Gaiman
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I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.
Deval Patrick
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In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
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It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.
Bertie Ahern
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Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy.
Deepak Chopra
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I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.
Sally O'Reilly
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Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.
Rick Warren
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