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Gifts

«Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.»
Author: Boris Pasternak | About: Gifts, Surprises | Keywords: grant, surprise
«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.»
«Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it»
Author: Pope John Paul II (Pope) | About: Gifts, Stupidity | Keywords: misuse
«Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Gifts | Keywords: engage, knack, substantial, The Knack
«Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it»
«Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.»
«Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.»
«Reason is God's crowning gift to man.»
Author: Sophocles | About: Gifts, Reason | Keywords: crowning
«Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Gifts | Keywords: givers, wax
«She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.»