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MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought
Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package
Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package
 For to give is the business of the rich.
 [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]  
 For to give is the business of the rich.
 [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] 
 Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
 [Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da wird er read more 
 Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
 [Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da wird er reussieren.] 
 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. 
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves read more
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!