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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Appreciation
St. Ambrose

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
Honor
Nicholas Boileau

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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Confidence
Maria Edgeworth

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Vanity
George Eliot

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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
Forgiveness
George Eliot

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Life and Living
Charles Feidelson

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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
Gratitude
Benjamin Franklin

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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
Counsel
Oliver Goldsmith

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Lies and Lying
Graham Greene

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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Advice
Sir Arthur Helps

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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Writers and Writing
Oliver Herford

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
Cities and City Life
Italian Proverb

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One returns to the place one came from.
Home
Jean De La Fontaine

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Cycles
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
Incredulity
James Russell Lowell

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
Retirement
John Milton

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Love
George Moore

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Time and Time Management
Ovid

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
Amusement
Phaedrus

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
Beauty
Ambrose Philips

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Love
Peace Pilgrim

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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Poetry and Poets
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
Understanding
Seng-Ts'an

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I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
Uncategorised
William Shakespeare

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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
Time and Time Management
William Shakespeare

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