Source: Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
“Love counts not its labour nor can it weigh its tenderness in the scale of purchase. That which it has it gives, and craves for more to give and give, till the soul's infinity be drained.”
Cleopatra (1889)
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Manchester Guardian, May 5, 1921. http://www.guardian.co.uk/newsroom/story/0,11718,850815,00.html
“Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.”
As quoted in Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995), by Roger Lowenstein, p. 77
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter V, On Wages, p. 52
The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”