GEMS OF THOUGHT
GIFTS. It is the will, and not the. gift 'that makes the giver.—Lessing. Rich gifts wax- poor when givers prove unkind. —Shakespeare. Certain occasions, considered either collectively or individually and observed properly, tend'to. give the activity of man infinite scope; but mere merry-making or needless gift-giving is not that in which human capacities finds the most appropriate and proper exercises.—Mary Baker Eddy. The. heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.—Martin Luther. Everv good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from, the Father of Lights, with whom is, no variableness, neither shadow of turning.—James 1:17. What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.—La Rochefoucauld.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1942, Page 4
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