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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.

Generosity

EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

5.0 · 40 votes

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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Generosity

Jean Paul Sartre

WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

3.5 · 39 votes

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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

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Jean de la Bruyère

French1645 · 17th century

3.5 · 24 votes · 191 reads

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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

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William Wordsworth

PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

4.9 · 56 votes · 126 reads

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

3.7 · 32 votes

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If you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility.

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3.3 · 44 votes · 136 reads

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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.

Generosity

NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

3.8 · 57 votes · 106 reads

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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Lavishness is not generosity.

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Thomas de Quincey

AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

4.8 · 40 votes · 116 reads

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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

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Jean de la Bruyère

French1645 · 17th century

3.0 · 63 votes · 116 reads

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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
5.0 · 24 votes · 151 reads
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
4.4 · 45 votes · 127 reads
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean Paul Sartre
WriterFrench1905 · 20th century
4.3 · 62 votes · 41 reads
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There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.
Jose Manuel Barroso
PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century
3.9 · 37 votes · 102 reads
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Eric Hoffer
AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century
4.1 · 28 votes · 31 reads
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To generous souls every task is noble.
Euripides
PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC
3.2 · 56 votes · 173 reads
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
3.9 · 51 votes · 63 reads
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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
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
3.4 · 18 votes · 192 reads
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