The virtue of this month...

This is the month of punctuality, or of being on time. I would like to think of it, also, as the month of doing things in their appointed time. And by that I mean that while this season is, of all seasons, the season to give, there are others times that aren't overtly celebrated as such. But an hour of need for one person, must be the season of giving for another, no? Perhaps, these quotes then will express both succinctly and beautifully what I wish to convey, and so I share...

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From the Thirukkural, verse 102:

காலத்தி நாற்செய்த நன்றி சிறிதெனினும்,

ஞாலத்தின் மாணப்பெரிது.

(Help rendered in an hour of need, be it however small, is greater than all the earth in its value.- Thiruvalluvar)

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Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.

- Jean de La Bruyère

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A Time for Everything

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace...

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And finally 'tis the season to be jolly, my dears! Fa la la la la...la la la la! :)