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43 quotesThere never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
Giving
Henry Ward Beecher
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Giving
Walter Benjamin
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A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
Inheritance
Bible
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It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]
Giving
Bible
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What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Colleges and Universities
Horatio Bottomley
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Invention and Inventor
Bertolt Brecht
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Flattery
Edmund Burke
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Mind
Lord Chesterfield
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Scandal
Lord Chesterfield
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Charity
Winston Churchill
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It is better to receive than to do injury.
Vengeance
Marcus T. Cicero
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Honor
Calvin Coolidge
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A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Questions
Lord Darling
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Divinity
Wayne Dyer
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
Importance
Wayne Dyer
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fools and Foolishness
Henry Fielding
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For it is in giving that we receive.
Giving
St. Francis of Assisi
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith
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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Giving
Billy Graham
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To give your best is to receive the best.
Success
Raymond Holliwell
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
Expectation
Elbert Hubbard
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
Samuel Johnson
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You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
Women
Ada Leverson
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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love
Karl A. Menninger
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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Money
Austin O'Malley
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun