GIFTS
Deus quaedam munera universo humano generi dedit, a quibus excluditur nemo.
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
Cum quod datur spectabis, et dantem adspice!
While you look at what is given, look also at
the giver.
Seneca—Thyestes. COCXVL
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
I would we could do so, for her benefits are
mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind
woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
All other gifts appertinent to man, as the
malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a
gooseberry.
Win her with gifts, if she respect not words;
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
More than quick words do move a woman's mind.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Parta meae Veneri sunt munera; namque notavi
Ipse locum aeriae quo congessere palumbes.
I have found out a gift for my fair;
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
—Eclog. III. 68. English by Shenstone. Pastoral. II. Hope. Erroneously
attributed to Rowe by Thomas Hughes in
Tom Brown's School Days.
Denn was ein Mensch auch hat, so sind's am
Ende Gaben.
For whatever a man has, is in reality only a
gift.
Wteland—Oberon. II. 19.
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
When I give I give myself.
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more.
Wordsworth—Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Pt. III.
No. 43.
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.
That every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
GLORY
So may glory from defect arise.
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
Brtdges—On the Death of Sir Walter Scott.
Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.
Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputationum. I.
Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.
Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
See Cornelius a Lapide—Commentaria, 2nd.
Epist. ad Cor. Ch. XII. 7. The sentence
is used in the Service of the Pope's enthronement after the burning of flax. Rite
used in the triumphal processions of the
Roman republic. According to Zonar<e^Annals. (1553)
*** glory built
On selfish principles is shame and guilt.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 9.
The first in glory, as the first in place.
Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru
Non minus ignotos generosis.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as
high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
Horace—Satires. I. 6. 23.
O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
O how quickly passes away the glory of the
earth.
Thomas a Kempis—Imitation of Christ. Bk.
I. Ch.HI. 6.
Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.
No flowery road leads to glory.
La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.
Glory is never where virtue is not.
« The glory of Him who
Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when
the world He created.
