Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much, and more.
Love exacting nothing back
Never knoweth any lack;
Love compelling Love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]
Oh! the pain of pains
Is when the fair one, whom our soul is fond of,
Gives transport, and receives it from another. [ Young ]
Let him that receives the profit repair the inn. [ Proverb ]
The earth produces all things, and receives all again. [ Proverb ]
He receives most favours who knows how to return them. [ Publius Syrus ]
An ass that kicks against the wall, receives the blow himself. [ Proverb ]
Flattery is like base coin; it impoverishes him who receives it. [ Madame Voillez ]
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner it is bestowed. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret, sympathetic aid. [ Thomson ]
Would you know how to give? Put yourself in the place of him who receives. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]
He who receives a good turn should never forget it, he who does one should never remember it. [ Charron ]
A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. [ George MacDonald ]
When we do good to our fellow sufferers, we invest in a savings-bank from which the heart receives the interest. [ E. Souvestre ]
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit. [ Goldsmith ]
Every person has two educations - one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.
He who receives his friends, and takes no personal care in preparing the meal that is designed for them, is not deserving of friends. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. [ J. C and A. W. Hare ]
Books are negative pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the fine lines are produced. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. [ Tillotson ]
Books are the negative pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced. [ Holmes ]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. [ Addison ]
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]