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Arthur Conan Doyle 166
Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes
“This book is begun by God’s gift and His grace, but it is not yet performed, as to my sight.”
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 86
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
Words on being presented with a Bible, as reported in the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle (8 September 1864)
1860s
“True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven”
Canto V, stanza 13.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Context: True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 272.
Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection — if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
The Four Loves (1960)
“A gift of truth is the gift of love”
ibid.
Variant: A gift of truth is the gift of love.
