Received Quotes
1105 quotes by 896 authors
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The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
— C.S. Lewis
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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full…
— Francis of Assisi
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It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong…
— Fausto Cercignani
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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received…
— Aristotle
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
— Seneca the Younger
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In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
— Eleanor Farjeon
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If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide -…
— Baron d'Holbach
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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they…
— John Dryden
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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others,…
— Wilferd Peterson
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I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.
— Luis Federico Leloir
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Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot…
— Louis Bacon
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The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice…
— Frans de Waal
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Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the…
— Kenneth Frampton
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
— Saint Ambrose
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I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.
— Maria Bamford
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Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and…
— David A. Bednar
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Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects…
— David A. Bednar
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All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to…
— Nikola Tesla
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