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"Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms." »Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
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"• Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The greatest giver of alms is cowardice." »F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow
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"The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever." »Plutarch
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"It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation." »John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
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"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely." »Bette-Jane Raphael
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"It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation." »John Gray
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"Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment." »La Bruy?re
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"If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds." »Koran
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"If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds." »Koran, (c. 651 AD)
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"The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting." »Lavater
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"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500." »Benjamin H. Brewster
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"A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500." »Benjamin H. Brewster
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"I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking." »Joyce Grenfell
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"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give." »Damien Hess
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"Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." »Kahlil Gibran
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"For it is in giving that we receive." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving." »Sheldon Kopp
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"Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having." »Margaret Lee Runbeck
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"You will get return the same things which you are giving to others." »Prakash Adhikari
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"Giving opens the way for receiving." »Florence Shinn
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!" »Georges Eliot, Middlemarch
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving." »George Eliot
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"God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has." »Arthur John Gossip
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"The giving of love is an education in itself." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy." »Kahlil Gibran
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"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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