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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. - Horace Mann We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. - Mignon McLaughlin A man who suddenly becomes generous may please fools, but he will not deceive the wise. - Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms. - Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. - Alexander Pope He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers; he that desires to give more than he can hath equaled his gift to his desire, and hath given more than he hath. - Francis Quarles Generosity is more charitable than wealth. - Joseph Roux No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. - Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi) Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so. - William Shakespeare It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. - William Shakespeare O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! - William Shakespeare To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. - William Shakespeare O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Princess at IV, i) Be just before you are generous. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. - Bishop Robert South There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. - Herbert Spencer A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon Almost always the most indigent are the most generous. - Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I") Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. - Laurence Sterne There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. - Sir Henry Taylor (2) When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. - Sir Henry Taylor (2) God blesses still the generous thought And still the fitting word He speeds, And truth, at His requiring taught, He quickens into deeds. - John Greenleaf Whittier Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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