Generosity quotes
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"We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again."
"Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better."
"Let me extend that generosity to myself."
"Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God"
"Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism."
"Generosity is the vanity of giving."
"We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others."
"Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality."
"Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy."
"We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity."
"The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us."
"When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous."
"You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own."
"In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics."
"The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help."
"The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them."
"Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked."
"I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread."
"What is bought is cheaper than a gift."
"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
