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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been read more
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality read more
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.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. read more
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
