“God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.”
James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist
André Delambre
The Fly (1958)
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.
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“God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 115
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Original: (la) Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59