The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants.… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I… — George Canning Copy Share Image
What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in… — Thrity Umrigar 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
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
Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage.… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of… — Robertson Davies 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
“wisdom needs no violence...As it is we have played at war – that’s what’s vile! We play at magnanimity and all that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. — John Keats Copy Share Image
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Parenthood is the magnanimity of the soul, not the mere outcome of a biological process. (Dr Abin. From TATTERED LOTUS)” — Dr. Abin Copy Share Image
“You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." — Kenny Smith 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
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
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
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
The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and… — Lenny Kravitz 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
“If there were no magnanimity in war, we'd go to it only when it was worth going to certain death, as now.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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