Gifts Quotes
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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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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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
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You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.
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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.
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Acknowledge your gifts and be grateful to the source. Because if you know from whom you’re receiving, you can always go back for more.
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True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.
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Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?
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All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.
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Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
