Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction
Samuel Johnson
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Is alw... WILLIAM COWPER Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is re... RICHARD SHELBY Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the... ARNOLD BENNETT The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. BRIAN TRACY Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are ha... MAURICE MATERLINCK Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happ... MAURICE MAETERLINCK Life is a gift and all of us who have the capacity must remember that we have the
responsibility to ... ANTHONY ROBBINS To create value and inspire others while utilizing your God given talent is the greatest gift of all... DAN ARMANDO No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, a... DENIS DIDEROT While we all respect Sam Johnson for his military record and have empathy for his past sufferings, t... BOB JOHNSON It’s an unavoidable job for every person to seek isolation intentionally and regularly to review w... ANUJ SOMANY Samuel has shown his class at this event. Every time we play with him, we know he is going to make s... RIGOBERT SONG Be alive to every moment as today passes as yesterday & it becomes a history. Make today as gift of ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Till the time Mother Nature takes away what she had bestowed upon us for free - this wonderful gift,... FAKEER ISHAVARDAS I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our br... JOJO MOYES If Karl calls us, I'll talk to him. But I'm not going to go recruiting. We're going to respect Karl'... GREGG POPOVICH To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good i... H. L. WAYLAND The best gift of a person is to lift the self-image in his own and others' eyes equally and consiste... ANUJ SOMANY The best gift of a person is to lift the self-image in his own and others' eyes equally and consiste... ANUJ SOMANY So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden oppor... THOMAS WOLFE Raffe arches his brow at me. ‘You should be with a nice human boy. One who takes your orders and p... SUSAN EE A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something... PAULO COELHO I always thought a person’s Gift reflected something about that person and all I can think is that... SALLY GREEN I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. ARISTOTLE Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk ab... SøREN KIERKEGAARD And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do wh... BIBLE ...The happy Warrior... 'tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high, conspicuous object in a nation's e... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. DANIEL WEBSTER Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life DANIEL WEBSTER God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi... SAINT AMBROSE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good i... H. L. WAYLAND Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 Every wise workman tak... ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE Let each day should not be the same as day past away. Arm yourself with new promise every new day. P... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Is it not eminently just that I should give myself entirely and without reserve to Him Who drew me o... FATHER JOHN NICHOLAS GROU, S.J. He came to me then, wrapped his arms around me. I stayed stiff in his arms for a moment, and then I ... LAURELL K. HAMILTON Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall ... CHARLES DICKENS Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall ... CHARLES DICKENS Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall ... CHARLES DICKENS The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he ... GEORGE F. HOAR Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You... PHILIPPA GREGORY Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds t... ZOE SUGG Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If you hav... MEISTER ECKHART Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distr... THOMAS FULLER You watch Bono in a room - and we're talking about a room of thousands swarming around him - he&... GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of... CHARLES CALEB COLTON Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in him... URSULA K. LE GUIN Every artist knows that at some point the gift he has will eventually be made manifest. He will, at ... JAMES LEE BURKE If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. EPICURUS The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson) TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT One of the greatest gift a man can give his mum is his respect for femininity. OLASOT Every time you post something online, you have a choice. You can either make it something that ... ZOE SUGG The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and... EDMUND BURKE He accepts life in all its facets, in all its climates and colors. He alone does not choose he accep... OSHO We had hoped that we could give him a little help. But they shoot the ball so well, they have kids o... RALPH LARSON And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. BIBLE Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And ... JESUS CHRIST What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior th... THOMAS S. MONSON Every moment of your life is a gift. It's a gift from the Divine, and the gift of the Divine is aski... TONY SAMARA If you look at him, you would think he's 20-something. He takes care of his body ... look in his loc... KEARY COLBERT Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let... MOSES He who takes care of his deceased brother s estate and of his widow, shall, after raising up a son f... GURU NANAK Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something ... ZOE SUGG Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be abl... FLAVOR FLAV And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto h... BIBLE Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distr... THOMAS FULLER Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibili... JüRGEN HABERMAS The moment a man buries the God of his ancestors, the God preached to him but not experienced by him... VICTOR E. SMITH Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when peop... IBN MAS'UD Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him ... C. NEIL STRAIT A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer ... SAMUEL JOHNSON A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer... RAMBLER While this is part of his job, he still takes time to do everything that he can before he returns to... DON MCCLURE Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied... CRISS JAMI Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie... ERIC BUTTERWORTH Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesu... JONATHAN MARTIN As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and divine... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment. MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
... JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, LL.D. Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not att... ROBERT HERRICK Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. THOMAS MERTON Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself... EARL NIGHTINGALE There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN This isn't just about getting something out of a relationship with God, it's about what I need to gi... EUGENE FLOOD JR That talk is ridiculous. Those are the same people who said Chauncey Billups was a bust. The fact is... JOHN NASH This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for: If you are moving in the ... ABRAHAM HICKS As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the supp... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every time we turn to Christ in faith it is like a moment of Sabbath, a little foretaste of eternal ... PHILLIP CARY I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to th... DAVID OGILVY
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SAMUEL JOHNSON To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and la... SAMUEL JOHNSON Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bul... SAMUEL JOHNSON He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly beco... SAMUEL JOHNSON Suspicion is most often useless pain. SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. SAMUEL JOHNSON Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho... SAMUEL JOHNSON I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's... SAMUEL JOHNSON We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us. SAMUEL JOHNSON Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely e... SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur... SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile... SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte... SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f... SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp... SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t... SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation... SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo... SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b... SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ... SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. SAMUEL JOHNSON