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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice
charity.
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No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
Author: French Proverb
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Author: Francesco Guicciardini
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The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Author: Joseph Conrad
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The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Author: Otto von Bismarck
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Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Author: Alistair Cooke
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No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Author: Emma Goldman
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Author: Anna Jameson
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Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.
Author: George Bush
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Author: Jean De La Bruyère
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Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Author: Barry Duncan
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To generous souls every task is noble.
Author: Euripides
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How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Author: Junius
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Author: Horace Mann
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What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
Author: Robert of Doncaste
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Author: Albert Camus
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Author: Nelson Henderson
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What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
Author: Old Epitaph
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What will you put in the stocking
of the Baby Jesus?
screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta
Young, and David's Niven.
Author: Leonardo Bercovici
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Author: W.h. Auden
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The more he cast away the more he had.
Author: John Bunyan
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
Author: Homer
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Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
Author: Joseph Joubert
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Gifts are hooks.
Author: Martial
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Author: Mignon Mclaughlin
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Author: Ignatius Loyola
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Author: Ralph Walso Emerson
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Author: Horace Mann
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