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Generosity QuotesFamous Generosity quotes by popular authors such as Francis Quarles, Karl Menninger, Charles Caleb Colton, Mignon McLaughlin, La Rochefoucauld and others.
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[highlight-text]Generosity is the vanity of giving.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
Karl Menninger
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[highlight-text]Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
Marya Mannes
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[highlight-text]Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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[highlight-text]This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
George R. Gissing
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[highlight-text]It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
J. A. Spender
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[highlight-text]Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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[highlight-text]Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
Francis Quarles
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
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[highlight-text]He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows; he breathes but does not live.
Sanskrit Proverb
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[highlight-text]Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity service self-sacrifice unselfishness and duty.
Willard Gaylen
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[highlight-text]The genius of happiness is still so rare is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.
Ellen Key