Quotes: generosity
Quotes 1 till 15 of 33.
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A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
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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.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
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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.
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I think that generosity is the essence of friendship.
Source: The Devoted Friend
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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
