Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I know that some people believe Winston Churchill, magnanimity in victory. I've always believed magnanimity in defeat and then sneak up on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean?… — Zeina Copy Share Image
You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and… — William James Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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