Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Frances BurneyTags: pain pleasure generosity
For it is in giving that we receive.
Francis of AssisiTags: kindness generosity giving
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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Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
Cormac McCarthyTags: friendship generosity 219
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
Saul BellowTags: generosity
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.
Henry JamesTags: novels generosity training
Don't touch my plumtree!
Said my friend and saying so...
Broke the branch for me
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.
Charles Alexander EastmanTags: simplicity materialism culture generosity native-american-wisdom
I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold
Dale WassermanTags: life goals selflessness heroism generosity goals-in-life giving don-quixote life-purpose man-of-la-mancha
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.
Paulo FreireTags: revolution poverty generosity
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