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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Generosity |
| Generosity is only benevolence in practice. Bishop Ken. | 1 | ||||||||
| Generosity is more charitable than wealth. Joseph Roux. | 2 | ||||||||
| One can love any man that is generous. Leigh Hunt. | 3 | ||||||||
| Generosity is the flower of justice. Hawthorne. | 4 | ||||||||
| Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so. Shakespeare. | 5 | ||||||||
| Our generosity never should exceed our abilities. Cicero. | 6 | ||||||||
| The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind’s great bribe. Dryden. | 7 | ||||||||
| It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. Shakespeare. | 8 | ||||||||
| In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Beecher. | 9 | ||||||||
| A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. Shakespeare. | 10 | ||||||||
| Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. Sir P. Sidney. | 11 | ||||||||
| Almost always the most indigent are the most generous. Stanislaus. | 12 | ||||||||
| If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. South. | 13 | ||||||||
| To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile? La Bruyère. | 14 | ||||||||
| Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family. Fuller. | 15 | ||||||||
Horace. | 16 | ||||||||
| Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner it is bestowed. Dr. Johnson. | 17 | ||||||||
| A man who suddenly becomes generous may please fools, but he will not deceive the wise. Phædrus. | 18 | ||||||||
| Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. Alexander Pope. | 19 | ||||||||
| Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. | 20 | ||||||||
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| Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. Corneille. | 21 | ||||||||
| For his bounty, there was no winter in it; an autumn ’twas that grew the more by reaping. Shakespeare. | 22 | ||||||||
| What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interests. La Rochefoucauld. | 23 | ||||||||
| How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. Junius. | 24 | ||||||||
| In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. George MacDonald. | 25 | ||||||||
| O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! Shakespeare. | 26 | ||||||||
| Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Duncan. | 27 | ||||||||
| The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. Lavater. | 28 | ||||||||
| When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. Henry Taylor. | 29 | ||||||||
| To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. Shakespeare. | 30 | ||||||||
| No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. Saadi. | 31 | ||||||||
| Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Pope. | 32 | ||||||||
| Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. Beveridge. | 33 | ||||||||
| They that do an act that does deserve requital pay first themselves the stock of such content. Sir Robert Howard. | 34 | ||||||||
| Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. Sterne. | 35 | ||||||||
| There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. Tacitus. | 36 | ||||||||
| There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. Goldsmith. | 37 | ||||||||
| He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. Henry Taylor. | 38 | ||||||||
| It is a pleasure appropriate to man for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. Ovid. | 39 | ||||||||
| All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. Mrs. Jameson. | 40 | ||||||||
| True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. Goldsmith. | 41 | ||||||||
| Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms. Pliny the Younger. | 42 | ||||||||
Whittier. | 43 | ||||||||
| It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don’t carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself. George Eliot. | 44 | ||||||||
| A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. Spurgeon. | 45 | ||||||||
| He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers; he that desires to give more than he can hath equaled his gift to his desire, and hath given more than he hath. Quarles. | 46 | ||||||||
| The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. Chesterfield. | 47 | ||||||||
| One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason the countrymen escape the smallpox,—because they meet no one to give it to them. Greville. | 48 | ||||||||
| There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. Spencer. | 49 | ||||||||
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