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"He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later."
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"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
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"Give with a free hand, but give only of your own."
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"Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet."
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"It's not what you got, but what you gave."
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"I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who's half a man,Or the man who's half a boy."
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"Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love."
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"The sun consumes even itself to give light to a dark world, do likewise."
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"When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you learned that someone needed help, you showed them all that you had learned without fearing that you might be revealing secrets or being used by others. To he who knocks, the door will open.He who asks will receive.He who consoles knows that he will be consoled.Even if none of these things happens when you are expecting it to, sooner or later you will see the fruits of the thing you shared with such generosity."
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"The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow."
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"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
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"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."
Friendship

"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
Man

"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."
Justice

"The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little."
History

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
Friendship

"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
Life

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."
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"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."
Age

"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."
Time
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