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- Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
- Thomas Guthrie
- He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
- Albanian Proverb
- 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
- He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
- Pierre Charron
- Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Francis Maitland Balfour
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
- Leon Tec, M.D.
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