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- The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1839
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
- Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
- Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923
- A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
- 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.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
- The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
- Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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