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" What I gave, I have ; what I spent, I had ; what I left, I lost by not giving it. "
The University of Chicago Magazine - Page 131
1915
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The Manchester iris, Volume 2

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...
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The Home missionary magazine. July 1836-Dec. 1846

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...
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Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of ...

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...
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Epitaphs for country churchyards, collected and arranged by A. J. C. Hare

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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 125

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...
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De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc ..., Volume 26

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pages
...and look on theo." The vanity of earthly possessions is well expressed in many quaint epitaphs : " What I gave, I have, What I spent, I had. What I left, I lost by not giving it." The following on Admiral Blake, is of the bombastic order, and is in...
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De Bow's Review, Volume 26

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 752 pages
...stand and look on thee." The vanity of earthly possessions is well expressed in many quaint epitaphs: " What I gave, I have, What I spent, I had. What I left, I lost by not giving it." The following on Admiral Blake, is of the bombastic order, and is in...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

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,...
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The Hour which Cometh, and Now is: Sermons Preached in Indiana-Place Chapel ...

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...
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The Hour which Cometh, and Now is: Sermons Preached in Indiana-Place Chapel ...

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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