Top Gifts Quotes
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
Robert Rainy
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi
Marcus Fabius Quintilian 
Roger Mahony 
Donovan Bailey 
Sophocles 
Loretta Young 
Anatole France 
Louisa May Alcott 
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Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton 
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Barbara Smith
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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich
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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.
Freeman Dyson
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
Jack Kroll
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
James E. Rogers
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti
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More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Edward Sapir
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Ralph Waldo EmersonMarcus Tullius Cicero Plato SophoclesHonore De Balzac AeschylusVirginia Woolf VirgilErma BombeckJean de la BruyereDenis WaitleyLoretta YoungAnatole FranceDean KoontzJimmy Carter
Washington IrvingCharles LambAlfred Lord TennysonAllen KleinLes BrownPrincess DianaJames BroughtonKatharine HepburnDon JohnsonThornton WilderGarth BrooksMarilyn HackerTerrence HowardMichael W. SmithCarter G. Woodson
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