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Think
of giving not as a duty
but as a privilege.
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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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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
We'd
all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it
cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
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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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Real
generosity is doing something nice for someone
who will never find
out.
Frank
A. Clark
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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That's what
I consider true generosity: You give your all,
and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Many
people have been capable of doing a wise thing,
more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
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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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To the generous mind the
heaviest
debt is that of
gratitude, when it is
not in
our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Generosity consists not of the sum
given, but of the
manner in which
it is bestowed.
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to
practice charity.
Albert Camus
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giving
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Our
generosity never should exceed our abilities.
Cicero
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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
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Generosity
is the flower of justice.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne |
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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
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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.
Henry Taylor |
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Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be
generous with your
blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion
can heal.
Steve Maraboli |
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True
generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes
which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful
and
subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their
trembling hands. True
generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of
individuals
or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication,
so that more and more they become human hands which work
and, working, transform the world.
Paulo Freire
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Practice
giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but
things
you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its
quality and the
amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't
bankrupt
yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later.
Give thought
to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental
processes
going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked.
Robert A.F. Thurman |
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Children must early learn the the beauty of
generosity. They are taught
to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of
giving.
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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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