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I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,
how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. XX, v. 35)
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Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he
give him a stone?
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. VII, v. 9)
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The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are
three things that are never satisfied, yea four things say not,
It is enough:
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with
water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXX, v. 15-16)
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Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a
shirt on his back.
Author: Tom Brown
Source: Laconics
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He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth;
But as he got it freely, so
He spent it frank and freely too:
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 489)
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It is not the weight of jewel or plate,
Or the fondle of silk or fur;
"Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich,
As the gifts of the Wise Ones were,
And we are not told whose gift was gold,
Or whose was the gift of myrrh.
Author: Edmund Vance Cooke
Source: The Spirit of the Gift
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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Of Gifts
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Author: Euripides
Source: Medea (964)
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Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
[Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da wird er reussieren.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 7, 73)
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
[Ger., Die Gaben
Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Hermann und Dorothea (canto V, l. 69)
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For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Hermann und Dorothea (I, 15)
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I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.
[Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,
Die Tochter denk' ich.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Spruche in Reimen (III)
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Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
Author: Thomas Hobbes
Source: Liberty and Necessity (no. 111)
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Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. 10, l. 29), (Pope's translation)
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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
[Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (337)
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
Author: Saint Jerome
Source: On the Epistle to the Ephesians
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"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
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For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
[Ger., Denn der Wille
Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.]
Author: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
Source: Nathan der Wiese (I, 5)
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A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
[Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (VI, 34)
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Not what we give, but what we share,--
For the gift without the giver is bare.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Vision of Sir Launfal (pt. II, st. 8)
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In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in
proportion to the worth of the thing given.
Author: George MacDonald
Source: Mary Marston (ch. V)
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
[Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (V, 59, 3)
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And wisest he in this whole wide land
Of hoarding till bent and gray;
For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand
Is what you have given away.
. . . .
He gave with a zest and he gave his best;
Give him the best to come.
Author: Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)
Source: Peter Cooper
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He gives twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]
- credited to Publius Syrus Mimus,
Author: Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)
Source: Peter Cooper
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Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.
Author: John Boyle O'Reilly, LL.D.
Source: Rules of the Road
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A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Author: Bible
Source: None
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Source: None
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'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
Author: Charles Lamb
Source: None
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One rose says more than the dozen
Author: Wendy Craig
Source: None
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
Author: Sherry Hochman
Source: None
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Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Author: Marian Anderson
Source: None
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To receive gifts is to lose freedom.
Author: Sandi
Source: None
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Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
Author: William Temple
Source: None
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