But God said;
I will have a purer gift,
There is smoke in the flame;
New flowerets bring, new prayers uplift,
And love without a name.
But God said;
I will have a purer gift,
There is smoke in the flame;
New flowerets bring, new prayers uplift,
And love without a name.
He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world as invalids pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live my life is for itself, and not for spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I ask for primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from a man to his actions.
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality It is next worst to receiving one
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
The only gift is a portion of thyself ... the poet brings his poem the shepherd his lamb....
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