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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. - Honore de Balzac Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. - William Beveridge The more he cast away the more he had. - John Bunyan Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Our generosity never should exceed our abilities. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. - Pierre Corneille Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. - Barry Duncan Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by dash of humor. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family. - Thomas Fuller (1) Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Kahlil Gibran There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. - Oliver Goldsmith True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. - Oliver Goldsmith 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 the countrymen escape the smallpox,--because they meet no one to give it to them. - Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne The truly generous is the truly wise; And he who loves not others, lives unblest. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) They that do an act that does deserve requital pay first themselves the stock of such content. - Sir Robert Howard One can love any man that is generous. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. - Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. - Junius (pseudonym, possibly of Sir Philip Francis) Generosity is only benevolence in practice. - Bishop Thomas Ken (Kenn) To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile? - Jean de la Bruyere What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interests. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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