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#bestow

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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.


William Makepeace Thackeray


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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.


Richard M. Nixon


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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.


Anne Seward


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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.


Pearl S. Buck


#blame #freeze #heart #much #out

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.


Harold Brodkey


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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.


John Updike


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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.


Thomas Hobbes


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It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.


Johan Huizinga


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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.


David Hume


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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.


Felix Adler


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