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

Bruyere, Jean De La on Generosity
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"The more he cast away the more he had."

Bunyan, John on Generosity
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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."

Bush, George on Generosity
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"Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them."

Duncan, Barry on Generosity
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"It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Generosity
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"To generous souls every task is noble."

Euripides on Generosity
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"Lavishness is not generosity."

Fuller, Thomas on Generosity
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Gibran, Kahlil on Generosity
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"Giving is the business of the rich."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Generosity
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"A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart."

Greville, Lord on Generosity
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"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."

Harris, Sidney J. on Generosity
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"Generosity is the flower of justice."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on Generosity
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"There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his."

Hoffer, Eric on Generosity
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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."

Jameson, Anna on Generosity
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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."

Johnson, Samuel on Generosity
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"How much easier is it to be generous than just."

Junius on Generosity
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"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed."

La Bruyere, Jean De on Generosity
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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."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Generosity
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"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Generosity
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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."

Mann, Horace on Generosity
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"Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."

Pope, Alexander on Generosity
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"What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost."

Robert of Doncaste on Generosity
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Generosity
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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."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Generosity
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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."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Generosity
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"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."

Taylor, Sir Henry on Generosity
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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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"Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more."

Wordsworth, William on Generosity
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"Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe."

Zinn, Jon Kabat on Generosity
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