Generous Quotes - Page 17

• He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Soul, Dedicated

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• There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Work Out, Long

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• No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Government, Land, People

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Husband, Giving Up

  "Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams" edited by Charles Francis Adams, (p. 147), 1875.

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• Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.

  Seth

  Selfish, Winning, Ideas

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• Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Destiny, Work Out

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

  John Piper

  Views, Giving, Promise

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• If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.

  John McLaughlin

  Children, Lying, Silly

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• There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Men, People

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

  Ted Turner

  Thoughtful, Race, World

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• Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

  William Ellery Channing

  Believe, Sacrifice, Greatness

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.8

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• Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.

  John Locke

  Men, Opposites, Gentleman

  John Locke (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

  Richard Steele

  Passion, Love Is, Sorrow

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1801). “The Spectator”, p.80

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• I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

  Andre Dubus

  Teacher, Class, Sound

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

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• I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Dangerous Situations, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Albums, Singers, Description

  "From the Archives: Kirsten Dunst Interviewed". Interview with Nathaniel Rogers, thefilmexperience.net. November 18, 2011.

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• Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Artist, Umbria, Years

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

  David McCullough

  Believe, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.

  Laozi

  Lying, Generous Spirit, Giving

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• We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

  William Henry Willimon

  Blessed, People, Proud

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• A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

  Confucius

  Hands, Giving, Rose

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• No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Lasts, Made

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.305, University of Virginia Press

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• The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, World, Facts

  Interview with Sonnet Stanfill, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Wise, Self, Situation

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• We are never so generous as when giving advice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Advice, Giving Advice

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