“ The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3K
“ In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. ”
- Eleanor Hamilton- Copy
- 2K
“ Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics. ”
- Arthur Caplan- Copy
- 344
“ A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. ”
- Max Stirner- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents. ”
- Wally Goodwin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
- 903
“ I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit… ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 2.8K
“ He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 195
“ Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 929
“ Even when a man acts ungrateful, it is often his benefactor who is more deserving of being labeled as disgraceful. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 720
“ Gratitude to benefactors is a well-recognized virtue, and to express it in some form or other, however imperfectly, is a duty to ourselves as well as to those who have helped us. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If we take the liberty to dwell on the faults of our friends and benefactors, we cannot long preserve the feelings we should hold towards them. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the "blessing" of idleness and won for us the "curse" of labor. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 362
“ Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches. ”
- P.T. Barnum- Copy
- 3.7K
“ People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. ”
- John Betjeman- Copy
- 834
“ The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
- 114
“ We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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