Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

“The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
MEvery nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
And Christe receive thy saule.”
—Unknown. Lyke-Wake Dirge, The (l. 33–36)

“His word
is withdrawn,
hieratic,
authentic,
a king’s,
yet all may receive it.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)