"Giver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Reader; Prometheus, the Giver of Fire in Coe, First Book of Stories for the Story-Teller; Six Soldiers of Fortune, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Country Maid and her Milk-Pail, in Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Flax, in Andersen, Wonder Stories; The Hammer and the Anvil, in Ramaswami ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... what the lady as made the mitts wants to let you know so's you may larn to think more o' the Giver than ...
— The Lively Poll - A Tale of the North Sea • R.M. Ballantyne
... we use, but not abuse, If we enjoy its beauty; And they who all its joys refuse Miss privilege and duty. Then prize earth's joys, but prize much more The bloom beyond the river; God's gifts enjoy, but e'er adore The ever blessed Giver. ...
— Gleams of Sunshine - Optimistic Poems • Joseph Horatio Chant
... say: "Let him who is himself so favored that he may confer benefits upon others, do it cheerfully and with pleasure." He declares (2 Cor 9, 7), "God loveth a cheerful giver." And he makes his meaning clear by another portion of the same verse, "not grudgingly, or of necessity." That is, the giver is not to twitter and tremble, not to be slow and tardy in his giving, nor to seek everywhere for reasons to withhold his gift. He is not ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. II - Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost • Martin Luther
... Rogers. He will not, I dare say, be more grateful for the gift of my Cupid than his sex generally are when ladies no longer young bestow their love on them, and so I hinted when giving him the little winged god; but, n'importe, the gift may please, though the giver be forgotten. ...
— The Idler in France • Marguerite Gardiner
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