The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him, and his to me. All his are mine, all mine his. 'I say to him, How can you give me this pot of... The Reader's Digest - Página 572editado por - 1926Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Agnes Repplier - 1912 - 320 páginas
...be no question between friends of giving or receiving, no possible room for generosity or gratitude. "The gift to be true must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at a level, then my goods pass to him, and... | |
| Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - 614 páginas
...gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at a level, then my goods pass to him, and... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1914 - 512 páginas
...the fitness of beautiful, not useful things for gifts. This giving is flat usurpation, and therefore when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries...of the gift, but looking back to the greater store it was taken from, I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon. For,... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1914 - 528 páginas
...gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him, and... | |
| Lewis Worthington Smith - 1916 - 312 páginas
...rejoice or grieve at a gift. I am sorry when ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity and not him. The gift to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him, and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 páginas
...gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are 5 at level, then my goods pass to him, and... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...whose gift was gold, Or whose was the gift of myrrh. EDMUND VANCE COOKE — The Spirit of the Gift. 20 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. EMERSON — Essays. Of Gifts. 21 It is said that gifts persuade... | |
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 páginas
...gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at a level, then my goods pass to him, and... | |
| Burges Johnson - 1927 - 340 páginas
...gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him. [The gift, to be < true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him, and... | |
| Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 páginas
...pleases me overmuch, then I should not be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver into me, correspondent to my flowing into him. When the waters are level, then my goods pass to him,... | |
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