Generous Quotes
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How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
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Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.
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I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.
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I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.
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A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
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Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.
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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.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Liverpool men are quite generous. I got a lovely necklace. It was really nice.
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I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
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Birds that love high trees and winds and riding flailing branches hate ledges as gripless and narrow, so that a tail is not just no advantage but ridiculous, mashed vertical against the wall. You will have seen the way a bird who falls on skimpy places lifts into the air again in seconds – a gift denied the rest of us when our portion isn't generous.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.
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Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
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I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
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Be genuinely grateful for the success of others. A generous spirit is the surest sign of a kind heart.
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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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By moderation one can be generous.
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It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.
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Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.
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The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular is not accessible to me and although people are generous, I can never be on the inside of a culture that relies a great deal on the private space and the family.
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It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.
