“The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

First published in The Educational Monthly of Canada, Volume 24‎ (1901), p. 29
Attributed
Context: Somehow not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to make you glad.

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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892

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