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Letter "G" » Generosity
«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.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Generosity,
Happiness,
Sharing
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«The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.»
Author: Francesco Guicciardini
(Historian, Statesman)
| About:
Generosity
| Keywords:
evident, generous, reap, The Return
«The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest»
«To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Generosity,
Gifts
| Keywords:
admiration, envy, generosity, gifts, greatly, possession, rejoice, rich in, unkindness
«Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Charity,
Generosity
| Keywords:
dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, generosity
«The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.»
«To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Generosity,
Heaven,
Virtue
| Keywords:
constitutes, earnestness, generosity, gravity, sincerity
«To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.»
«The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity»
«The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.»
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