How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Gifts Quotes, Giving Quotes, Pain Quotes

Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in...

Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path...

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with...

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of...

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of...

America is another name for opportunity.

America is another name for opportunity.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual...

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself...

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself...