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If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for read more
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.
Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Not what we give, but what we share,--
For the gift without the giver is bare.
Not what we give, but what we share,--
For the gift without the giver is bare.
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion read more
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would read more
He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth;
But as he got it freely, so
He spent it frank and freely too:
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.
