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famous quotes A few quotes on generosity.....try to practice it....Ed R
A few quotes on generosity.....try to practice it....Ed R
"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give." -French Proverb
"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." -Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
"The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." -Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels and Reflections
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." -Nelson Henderson
"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity." -Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." -John Wesley
A man there was, and they called him mad; The more he gave the more he had. Bunyan
The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's bride. John Dryden
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Isadora Duncan
As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors. Thomas Fuller
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. Grenville
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there; generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that countrymen escape the smallpox, because they meet with no one to give it to them. Grenville
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblessed. Home
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. Mrs. Jameson
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. Junius
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. Johann Kaspar Lavater
Generosity during his life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberation and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann
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"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give." -French Proverb
"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." -Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
"The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." -Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels and Reflections
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." -Nelson Henderson
"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity." -Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." -John Wesley
A man there was, and they called him mad; The more he gave the more he had. Bunyan
The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's bride. John Dryden
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Isadora Duncan
As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors. Thomas Fuller
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. Grenville
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there; generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that countrymen escape the smallpox, because they meet with no one to give it to them. Grenville
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblessed. Home
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. Mrs. Jameson
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. Junius
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. Johann Kaspar Lavater
Generosity during his life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberation and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann
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