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Der Mutter schenk' ich,
Die Tochter denk' ich.
I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.
Goethe—Bpriiche in Beimen. III.
Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
Hobbes—Liberty and Necessity. No. 111.
John Webster—Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. 10. L. 29
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Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.
Everything that is superfluous overflows
from the full bosom.
Horace—Ars Poetica. 337.
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
St. Jerome—On the Epistle to the Epkesians.
According to Archbishop Trench, explanation that his writings were free-will offerings,
when fault was found with them. Found
also in Vvlgaria Stambrigi. (About 1510)
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| text = <poem>"Presents," I often say, "endear Absents."
Lamb—A Dissertation upon Boast Pig.
Denn der Wille
Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
Lessing—Nathan der Weise. I. 5.
Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.
A woman's mind is affected by the meanest
gifts.
LrvT—Annales. VI. 34.
Not what we give, but what we share,—
For the gift without the giver is bare.
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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.
George MacDonaid—Mary Marston. Ch. V.
Quisquis magna dedit, vomit sibi magna
remitti.
Whoever makes great presents, expects
great presents in return.
Martial—Epigrams. V. 59. 3.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son
ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Matthew. VII. 9.
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| text = <poem>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.
Joaquin Miller—Peter Cooper.
GIFTS
All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what
we have given away.
Old Sanscrit proverb.
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| text = <poem>Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.
John Boyle O'Reilly—Rules of the Road.
Rest est ingeniosa dare.
Giving requires good sense.
Ovn>—Amorum. I. 8. 62.
Majestatem res data dantis habet.
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.
Ovid—Epistolce Ex Panto. W. 9. 68.
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Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quse
pretiosa facit.
Those gifts are ever the most acceptable
which the giver makes precious.
Ovid—Heriodes. XVII. 71.
Dicta docta pro datis
Smooth words in place of gifts.
Plautus—Asinaria. Act III.
Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat
altera.
In one hand he bears a stone, with the other
offers bread.
Plautus—Aulularia. Act II. 2. 18.
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The horseleech hath two daughters, crying
Give, give.
Proverbs. XXX. 15.
Bis dat qui cito dat.
He gives twice who gives quickly.
Credited to Publtus Mimus by Langids, in
Polyanth. Noviss. P. 382. Erasmus—
Adagia. P. 265, (Ed. 1579) quoting Seneca.
Compare Seneca—De Beneficiis. II. 1.
Homer—Iliad. XVIII. 98. Title of epigram in a book entitled Joannis Owen,
Oxeniensis Angli Epigrammatum. (1632)
P. 148. Also in Manoulus Sacer—Concionum Maralium, Cottectus ex VoluminUms
R. P. Hieremice Drexelii. (1644) Euripides—Bhes. 333. Ausonius—Epigram.
83. 1. (Trans.) Alciatus—Emblemata.
162.
He always looked a given horse in the mouth.
Rabelais—Works. Bk. I. Ch. XI.
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Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the
gift stands the giving;
Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive
nerves of receiving.
Richard Realf—Indirection.
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| num = | text = <poem>Fabius Verrucosus beneficium ab homine duro
aspere datum, panem lapidosum vocabat. Fabius Verrucosus called a favor roughly bestowed by a hard man, bread made of stone. Seneca—De Beneficiis. II. 7.
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