Generous Quotes - Page 13

• It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Generosity, Debt, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Generosity, Favour

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• Be just before you are generous.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1781). “The School for Scandal; a Comedy: As it is Performed at the Theatres-Royal, in London and Dublin”, p.51

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• The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Land, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.161, Fordham Univ Press

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• Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?

  Patrick Henry

  Country, Men, Rights

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.

  George Washington

  Country, Views, People

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.163

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• The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.

  William Arthur Ward

  Generosity, Enthusiastic, Joyous

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• We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake, Mean, Compassion

  1977 Speech, Zurich University, 14 Mar.

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• I think that our whole country needs to have more love and compassion for all children. All life is valuable and a gift from God. Pregnancy is not something that "just happens." Pregnancy is a gift from God. I think it is God telling us "OK, you are responsible enough to raise this new young life that I, God, am going to give you." And for people who can't conceive children, God may be asking you for an even more generous response - to adopt and raise a child.

  Kim Alexis

  Country, Children, Pregnancy

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• And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

  Rene Descartes

  Gratitude, Pride, Hatred

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• I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Gratitude, Grateful

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.135

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• A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Heart, Men, Generous Man

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• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Skins, Weakness

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• For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  School, Army, Soldier

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.225

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• You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Consistency, Have Courage, Merciful

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• Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grief, Heart, Fate

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.22

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• Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

  Stan Smith

  Men, Caves, Gestures

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• Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.

  Kimberly Hahn

  Christian, Hands, Giving

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• I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Back When, Way

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Powerful, History, Enemy

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• As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.

  John Muir

  Wall, Sky, Mountain

  John Muir (1973). “The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir”

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• Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Men, Widows And Orphans, Joy

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• Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas.

  Kate Hudson

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

  A.C. Grayling

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Reality

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