“ Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. ”
- Robert of Doncaste- Copy
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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- Copy
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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. ”
- George H. Bush- Copy
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“ We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
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“ Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
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“ Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity. ”
- Patrick Stewart- Copy
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“ The spirit of Christian liberality will strengthen as it is exercised. ”
- Ellen G. While- Copy
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“ The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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“ Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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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. ”
- George Bush- Copy
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“ The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest. ”
- Henry Home- Copy
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“ All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. ”
- Anna Jameson- Copy
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“ Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. ”
- Margaret Cho- Copy
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“ All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ”
- Homer- Copy
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