The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
– Baltasar Gracin
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- Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracin
- A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. – Baltasar Gracin
- Deal with people from whom you can learn – Baltasar Gracin
- We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open. – Baltasar Gracin
- Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted. – Baltasar Gracin
- For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching. – Baltasar Gracin
- Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense – Baltasar Gracin
- Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. – Baltasar Gracin
- It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. – Baltasar Gracin
- Respect yourself is you would have others respect you. – Baltasar Gracin
- Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. – Baltasar Gracin
- The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard. – Baltasar Gracin
- Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do. – Baltasar Gracin Y Morales
- Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected. – Amit Kalantri
- Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected. – Amit Kalantri
- A highly paid, highly motivated employee who is not allowed to work with his full potential is like a Ferrari which is not allowed out of the garage. – Charbel Tadros
- Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone. – Janna Cachola
- All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it’s the will that gives us the ability to focus – Bob Proctor
- He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him-¦ – Mrs Oliphant
- May it always cost the head as long as it does not cost the heart – Ilse Aichinger
- The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. – Thomas Jefferson
- A good teacher teaches through words. A Great teacher teaches through actions. A good teacher is appreciated. A great teacher is emulated. – Shubha Vilas
- When you GIVE under -œcompulsion- or -œGrudgingly- you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving. – John Paul Warren
- A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty. – Debasish Mridha
- If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would. – Roshani Chokshi
- Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation. – David Pietrusza
- The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold… – Oksana Rus
- When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence. – EB Hudspeth
- No misery compares to staring at a clear night’s sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach. – Richelle E Goodrich
- I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing – Guy de Maupassant
- I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn’t be the cost of failure for a good friend. – Jodi Picoult
- The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself. – Olawale Daniel
- The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence. – Robin Hoyle
- In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn’t? – Melanie CusickJones
- Actions speak louder than words. Words cost nothing. Actions can cost everything. – Aleksandra Layland