| 1823 - 450 pages
...confess began my name, but that was but sham, For this world's pelf I wanted not, until I lost my ham. What I gave I have What I spent I had What I left I lost by not giving it. ON ANOTHER STONE BY THE SIDE OF THE ABOVE. To the memory of llary, wife... | |
| Home missionary society - 1844 - 682 pages
...wife, to me most dear, We lived together fifty-five year ; " and underneath there were these words : " What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost." The only thing which he had, if he were a good man, was what he had given away, and that... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...— The inseription on an old tomb-stone may serve to illustrate the meaning of this passage : — " What I gave, I have ; what I spent, I had ; what I left, I lost." P. 22. As when the moonlight breathes. — " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon that... | |
| Epitaphs, Augustus John Cuthbert HARE - 1856 - 86 pages
...: how knowcst thou whether thou shalt live to-morrow ? — A. We are not dead, but waiting — A. " What I gave, I have ; What I spent, I had ; What I left, I lost by not giving it." (Tomb of Thomas Savenscroft, 1708. Westminster Abbey.) " O thou that... | |
| 1920 - 1146 pages
...'A Hint to the Rich,' for the Atlantic nine years ago, he began and ended it with the quotation: — What I gave, I have; What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost There was his whole philosophy of riches. His practice was itself a hint to the rich, for his constant... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...OF JOHN OF DONCASTEE. Habeo, dedi qued alteri ; Habuique qued, dedi mihi; Sod qued ruliqui, perdidi. [What I gave, I have ; What I spent, I had ; What I saved, I lost.] 34 K THE CHURCHYARD OP LLANGERRIO, MONTGOMERYSHIRE. 0 "1 f 0 ] f observe this well,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1864 - 364 pages
...by giving it away. We lose it by trying to keep it. You remember the epitaph on a tombstone, — " What I gave, I have ; what I spent, I had ; what I kept, I lost." The great millionnaire, who dies without having done any great good with his wealth, evidently loses... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1864 - 366 pages
...by giving it away. We lose it by trying to keep it. You remember the epitaph on a tombstone, — " What I gave, I have ; what I spent, I had ; what I kept, I lost." The great millionnaire, who dies without having done any great good with his wealth, evidently loses... | |
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