"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers." - Seneca "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." - George MacDonald "If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving.  Take what you are given, not what you want to ...

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"Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything.  You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree." - Michael Crichton, Timeline "We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre." - Dick Gregory "History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of ...

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"Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness." - John Sterling "To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart." - Francesco Guicciardini "Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf." - Jonatan Mårtensson ...

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