Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
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You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
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As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
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It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and givenwhen Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
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The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
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Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain.. The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.
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There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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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.
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
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Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one?s decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one?s own true gifts. It involves thinking about one?s environment and deciding what one will and won?t accept.
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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.
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