Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

    Even a poor man can receive honors.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?
    Bible: Hebrew, Job 2:10.

    Job.

    ... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)