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"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give." »French Proverb
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"To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom." »Elbert Hubbard
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"How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest." »Junius
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"In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower." »J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
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"Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly." »Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
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"generous people are rarely mentally ill." »Dr. Karl Menninger
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"It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism." »Author Unknown
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"I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money." »Will Rogers
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"The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." »Francesco Guicciardini
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"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism." »Frank A. Clark
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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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"To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*" »Panchatantra
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"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world." »Thomas Guthrie
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"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity." »Charles Dudley Warner
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"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach." »Margaret Cho
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"Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as brilliancy from Jupiter." »Nizami
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"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever." »Margaret Cho
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"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"To bad as well as good, to all, A generous man compassion shows; On earth no mortal lives, he knows, Who does not oft through weakness fall." »Ramayana
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"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at." »Sterne
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"No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them." »Aristotle
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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain." »Thomas Hobbes
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"You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her." »Winston Churchill
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"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed." »Alfred A. Montapert
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"It is impossible for those who are engaged in low and grovelling pursuits to entertain noble and generous sentiments. Their thoughts must always necessarily be somewhat similar to their employments." »Demosthenes
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"All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder." »Butler
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"Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired." »The Hitopadesa
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"Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others." »Sa?di
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"American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced." »Elinor Glyn
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"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty." »George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8
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