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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
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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.
-Anna Brownell Jameson
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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
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What seems to be generosity
is often no more than disguised ambition,
which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
-François de la Rochefoucauld
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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
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They who give what they would as readily throw away
give
without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in
self-sacrifice. -Henry Taylor |
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| Generosity is not in giving me that which I need
more than you do,
but it is in giving me that which you need more
than I do. -Khalil Gibran |
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| We'd
all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it
cheap. -Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to
practice charity. -Albert Camus |
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Our
generosity never should exceed our abilities.
-Cicero
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your
successes
only if you generously consent to share them.
-William Blake
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| Many
men have been capable of doing a wise thing,
more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Don't
say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
-Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving
all to the present. -Albert Camus
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To
know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
-Elbert
Hubbard
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Generosity consists not
the sum given, but the
manner in which
it is bestowed. -unattributed
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To the generous mind the
heaviest debt is that of
gratitude, when it is not in
our power to repay it. -Benjamin Franklin
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Real
generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find
out. -Frank
A. Clark
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Think
of giving not as a duty
but as a privilege. -John
D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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